I watched a report about the Nancy Reagan funeral service

[malaise]

on Miami's Local 10 (ABC) and the female reporter mentioned Michelle Obama, Dumbya and his wife but omitted Rosalyn Carter.
Sometimes I wonder if it's just plain dumb or just deliberate.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. I hope it's just an uninformed omission.

If it was deliberate, Michelle Obama would not have been mentioned.

[malaise]

4. ABC with Muir just left her out as well. She was sitting next to Hillary Clinton

and he mentioned Hillary sitting next to Laura Bush and even showed a clip with Rosalynn next to Hillary and did not mention her name. He mentioned Michelle Obama, George Bush, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton and completely ignored Rosalynn Carter.

[phylny]

16. Same for NBC News with Lester Holt,

though you could plainly see her sitting there. Or course, they had to talk about Tom Brokaw and show part of his remarks and have an interview with him.

Blech.

[malaise]

17. Brokaw and Sawyer made it clear that they

were delighted reTHUG hacks. I actually muted him

[phylny]

21. I can't stand Brokaw.

But I love it when comedians (Jimmy Fallon??) make fun of his speech by pretending to be him saying, "Rory McElroy."

Even thinking about it makes me laugh.

[kskiska]

2. Aside from Michelle and a possible Secret Service Agent

I didn't notice any other "people of color" there.

[malaise]

3. One person in the choir

[Rex]

5. I keep hoping it is just dumb errors.

[malaise]

6. Can't be

there is no way someone didn't see Rosalynn Carter sitting next to Hillary and they spoke.

I'd like to see Twitter's comments on this

[trof]

7. Probably didn't know who she was.

I mean that was SO long ago.

[malaise]

9. Where are the producers???

I can't believe this.

[trof]

11. "Unidentified elderly woman sitting next to Hillary Clinton."

[malaise]

15. Yep

and yet other news outlets mentioned her.

What's more they had advanced notice that they were all attending.

[fullautohotdog]

8. If they're too young to know her...

then no, it's not out of the realm of possibility.

BTW, "too young" means under about 45 now (Jimmy left office more than 35 years ago), and I'm willing to bed most 10 year olds don't pay that much attention to politics. I'm 30 and I probably couldn't have picked Nancy Reagan out of a crowd.

[malaise]

10. You are not the news producer

There must be someone assigned to know all he folks in those front pews. This is unforgivable for me.

[csziggy]

27. Considering how ignorant many news "professionals" are it's not surprising

[JHB]

28. "Should" and "does" are very different things...

...and that difference has been unforgivable for, oh, several decades now.

[spanone]

30. these are the best teevee journalists in the country

they know who first lady Carter is.

odds are all media also had a seating chart

it's unexcusable

[malaise]

13. A college student would ask who is that lady next to Hillary Clinton

and not one of these hacks asked that question.

Seriously this is unforgivable

[Rex]

29. Well there was always animosity toward the Carters.

I have no idea why the Reagan's despised the Carters as much as they did. Maybe it was because the Carters Walked & Talked while the Reagan's never did anything but fuck up the nation.

[oldandhappy]

12. Carter is always almost out of range at the end of presidential line up.

He is deliberately ostracized in group photos of past presidents. Have never understood. The R and D guys intermingle so it is not a party thing. I am not surprised but I am offended to hear about this. Graciousness does not cost money. Graciousness is something we all can practice.

[malaise]

14. I noticed that

Still shaking my head

[Fumesucker]

18. Carter is the most Bernie-like of the living Presidents

Coincidence?

[oldandhappy]

19. You are right! That escaped me. Thanks.

He was honest. He put up solar panels. He wore a sweater. What a hoot. Carter did try to help us wake up.

[malaise]

22. ANd he's still building homes for others

with Habitat for humanity.

[malaise]

20. Good point

Earlier in the week they were justifying Nancy's spending on expensive china and designer clothers - because Carter had 'blue jeans'(ed) the White House. You can't win with these hacks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Perhaps graciousness isn't a Republican trait........? ...n/t

[oldandhappy]

24. Smile. Have not seen a lot of it lately.

[malaise]

25. I can't believe they didn't know

Print got it right
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-clinton-reagan-aids-critics-20160311-story.html

[JHB]

32. Not hard to understand at all...

Carter was a Washington outsider, and is a pariah to both conservative Republicans and "centrist" Democrats.

Neither group wants a photo of themselves getting chummy with him.

[tblue37]

35. They consider him an outsider, not "one of us." nt

[haele]

26. They neglcted both Ms. Carter and Barbara Bush -

I'm surprised Barbara didn't show up, unless she's got a medical reason. She showed up for a Jeb rally recently, after all.
But from what I remember of the 1980's, Babs and Nancy didn't like each other and treated each other the way cats do - they ignored each other as much as possible.

Haele

[malaise]

31. No they did not neglect barbara Bush

since she was not there and they had said in advance that Dumbya would be representing his parents.

[haele]

33. By protocal, Barbara should have attended as a former First Lady, same as the President...

...would attend the funeral of a former President.

President Obama didn't need to attend, so long as Michelle did. Same for Shrub; Laura was supposed to attend. Having the Shrub attend for his mother if she were capable of making it to the ceremony is just crass.

My rather catty observation was based on the fact that for all her "old money" pretentions and attempts to appear grandmotherly when she was a First Lady, Barbara was more wolf in grandma's clothes than the grandmother, as it were. The role of First Lady seemed to be something she didn't really want to do, even though she should have been able to handle being a hostess from the various executive level positions GHW Bush had held over the years, and from her background out of wealth. Barbara would have been aware that she should have made an effort to attend if she were capable of doing so.
Come to think of it, I don't remember if Barbara attended LadyBird's funeral, either.

Haele

[malaise]

34. Health reasons were given

for both of them

[haele]

36. KK

I'll admit to just being catty then. The one time I was in the same location as Barbara Bush, I felt the same sort of presence I felt when being in the general area of Dick Cheney. Just didn't want to draw any attention from either of them, and I really never wanted to be introduced.

And going back to the OP, it is a sorry state of our Media to not call out all the First Ladies in attendance.

Haele

[malaise]

37. I detest the Bush clan

but they did excuse themselves