I can't get that Hanna Storm interview with M. Moore out of my head!

[trumad]

I've seen thousands of interviews in my time and I've got to say that this one sticks with me like no other. We can go through a litany of non-objective so-called Journalist from Tweety to Timmy Russert. There have been many times that I've seen disgust in the interviewers face during the interview but I gotta say, Hanna takes the cake.

When Mike Moore put the spotlight on the media after one of Hanna's questions, I thought she would explode. Her body language, her facial expressions, her tone, and her obvious lack of objectivity should be studied by Journalism schools throughout the land. Kids, as a Journalist this is not how you are supposed to act.

Anyway...for those who haven't seen it it's certainly worth the watch.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/25/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main626088.shtml

[cthrumatrix]

1. The media's job is to hide the truth.... they do not like this movie one

bit...and Moore "outwits" them each time

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Yes, my wife watched this interview

Friday and her blood was boiling...absolutely no objectivity. Ms. Storm frequently cut Moore off, switched subjects, and cornered him with rhetorical questions. Total garbage journalism. For a while there, I admired CBS for taking a stand against the Pukes, but now I'm not so sure.

[bowens43]

6. Moore destroyed her......

Definately worth watching.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

24. I actually think she did a good job - but he did a better one!

She asked hard questions, tried to stop Moore from directing the interview in the way he wanted it to go and really put pressure on him. A journalist SHOULD do that sort of thing. Can you imagine if Bush was given a grilling like that? Isn't that what journalists are supposed to do?

Moore can speak for himself, so the journalist should take the role of the "Devil's Advocate" arguing forcefully for the other side. If that sort of thing had happened in the run up to the war like Moore said, things would have been different.

But, as I said, Moore was even better. He controlled the flow and subject of that interview like the pro he is. He shot down each one of her arguments WITHOUT losing his cool and without looking like a fool.

Compare and contrast this interview with the one Bush had in Ireland.

In fact compare and contrast that with the standard interviews carried out with Bush admin members - where the interviewer spends most of the time agreeing with and genuflecting to the interviewee.

Which is more likely to find the truth? The one where hard questions are asked and not allowed to be dodged, or the one where the interviewer mays as well not bother asking any questions because we basically get a prepared speech?

Too bad the US media can only do its job properly when the subject is NOT a member of the Bush cabal.

[PA Democrat]

26. Yes, Hanna read Karl Rove's talking points quite well

We now know thanks to Keith Olbermann that the White House sends instructions to "journalists" as to which questions to ask.

[immoderate]

32. I have to agree.

Many here do not realize that getting tough with an interviewee is doing a great service. And if the interviewee is on the level and knows his stuff, as Moore does, it's a service to him as well.

It's like a slow ball down the middle does not show the batter at his best.

--IMM

[onecitizen]

12. I hope MM next.......

film is going after the so-called media!

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. His next project is called "Sicko"

A film on the healthcare industry. Sounds good!

http://imdb.com/title/tt0386032/

[onecitizen]

41. Ooooh yeah.....

I like that too!

[sui generis]

3. the news media had economic incentive

bad ratings? well get an embedded reporter out there jouncing across the desert on the back of a humvee for some gritty reality tv. They WANTED this war, they LOVE this war. "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was a perma-banner on CNN for 60 solid days.

[KoKo]

10. It was all about "Ratings" with them. Ratings for the corporate coffers.

Money, Money. Forget reporting it's all about the money. They hire people to work for the money not to report anything.

[Jim__]

4. I thought Moore made his points extremely well

She couldn't pull him off his message.

[PA Democrat]

5. Was Ms. Storm supposed to be a "professional journalist"?

She pontificated about how journalists are supposed to look at both sides of the story, but she had a very obvious personal and one-sided agenda during the interview.

I'll bet that this interview earned her some extra brownie points from Karl Rove. She stuck to the evil bastard's talking points quite well.

[0007]

34. ..but...but ... Karl doesn't like losers and Michael mopped the floor

with this so-called journalist that brown noses and licks the boots of the ones in powers.

Ms. Storm should know when your nose is brown your to far down.

[Cha]

7. I didn't see it but I can imagine from

your very apt description. As one reviewer of F9/11 from "The Mercury News" in Las Vegas, so well put it..
"Burning Bush: Fahrenheit 9/11 is a timely exposé of Dubya's perfidy and the media's subservience"

http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2004/MERC-Jun-24-Thu-2004/24162082.html

I caught a little of michael isikoff(investigative correspondent-real oxymoron)for Newsweek on c-span this morning and his was accusing a caller of seeing "Fahrenheit 9/11" when the caller was asking about the taliban and the pipeline and the bushco. The caller informed him that he hadn't seen F/911.
Another caller also told him to quit pointing the finger at Clinton as far as terrorists are concerned bushes couldn't find any WMD..he said Clinton had the best job record of any President he knew and sadam would not have had any WMD in the first place without reagun.

So you see ..it's the media and always has been.

[KoKo]

11. Thanks for the info about callers Zidzi. I had to turn it off because

Issikoff was annoying me so much. It was right after they showed the FT Article about Iraq/Yellow cake from Niger...I didn't get to hear any good call in's because Issy's voice was annoying me. I look at the guy and remember what he did with Drudge and Monica and he makes me sick that he's still spewing for the Admin and Repugs and yet he's considered
like Woodward and Bernstein by the "whore media." Blech!

[Cha]

38. I was lucky this morning because I knew

that isikoff had given F9/11 a bad review so I knew he was still whoring so I didn't listen to his voice ...I just would turn it on when the callers were talking and I would mute issy. I could tell by his lyin' face that he was up to no good.

And it really was funny when that caller said he hadn't seen F9/11...and I already knew even though issy was muted that he was tearing down F9/11 with lies when the guy had asked about the "pipeline in Afghanistan".

[Bunny]

8. It was quite egregious, wasn't it?

And she probably fancies herself as a "hard-hitter", a serious journalist determined to expose the truth, no matter what!

She just made herself look like a fool, as so many have done before and after her. It kinda hurts when your own inadequacies are thrown in your face, doesn't it Hannah?

The Lisa Myers hack job on MSNBC was just as comical. She stated that MM asks who the Bushes are more concerned about, the country or the Saudis? She doesn't mention what MM said just before that: we pay W. $400,000 to run the country, the Saudis have paid him (and family) $8 billion. Who do you suppose the Bushes are more concerned about? She conveniently left that part off.

Then the funniest thing was she presented some fellow to rebut this, who categorically stated that the Bushes do NOT place the Saudis above their country. As if that should settle it, once and for all. Well, bud, can you prove that? Or is that just your OPINION?

What a complete and obvious hack job, no real journalist would attach their name and face to it. But I guess that passes for hard-hitting journalism in the United States of Bushco.

[TankLV]

35. But the fact that this bunch of criminals has to actually go on TV and

CLAIM that their pResident IS more concerned about Amerikkka than SA speaks volumes!

NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS HAD TO DEFEND HIS LOYALTY BEFORE!

That should be the BIG picture!

We've got to learn to listen to the "news" like the old USSR citizens did.

He is TOO intelligent!

He DOES TOO work!

He IS TOO in charge!

[BootinUp]

9. Hannah Storm

was a local newscaster in Charlotte NC back in the 80's when I lived there. Although I don't know her politics, I wouldn't be surprised if she was a staunch Southern republican type.

[shtinkycat]

13. What a bush loving reporter!

I just sent an email to CBS, asking if Storm works for the Bush campaign. And asking them to please use a fraction of her aggressiveness when interviewing administration officials.

I thought MM did great, and never attacked her personally.

[southlandshari]

49. did you get a reply from CBS?

I wrote yesterday and requested a reply, but have heard nothing.

The customer service black hole, I guess.

[anelson]

14. She says they represented balanced reporting....

But I don't remember any TV networks asking the hard questions or fronting the Progressive/Liberal views of the war. Jingoism was the rule after 9/11. Also, Storm quotes a known liberal hater like Christopher Hitchens? Amazing videoo....if only she and her fellow journalists had shows so much vigor in the questioning the need for Iraq invasion....

[jakefrep]

15. Now...

it's easy to see why Albert Belle cussed her out before a World Series game.

[leftofthedial]

16. she has a lot of nerve

appealing to the "standards" of "journalism." What a whore.

. . . and her repeated assertions that F 9/11 is "an attack on the President" is straight out of the neocon talking points memo. I didn't count, but she must have said that phrase ten times.

Then she constantly tries to put words in his mouth. What a shameless whore.

[NicoleM]

17. Holy jeez.

Thanks for posting that. I wish I could say it was unbelievable, but it's not that surprising given what a lightweight she is.

DYK she used to be Hannah Storen and changed her name to Hannah Storm? That's so cheesy. I remember when she used to work the NBC sports desk. She should have stuck with sports. The news is just too hard for poor little Hannah.

[PaDUer]

47. Wonder who she's

sleeping with??

[seabeyond]

18. so when the media ask, is this one sided

hm..........and your interviews of my movies, is that one sided. do you have issue with one sided

[Cheswick2.0]

19. here is how to contact them and complain

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

At the bottom is a link that says contact us............

Give em hell

[NJCher]

21. Hannah Storm is a lightweight

Pretending she is an investigative, hard hitting journalist. I laughed at the pen in her hand. It's like bush when he wears his glasses: a desperately needed prop to project gravitas.

MM kicked her ass 40 ways from Sunday, not only with quick responses but with body language. Note how he refused to play into her sweeping gestures with the pen. Instead he just sat there batting back comical replies; cracked me up.


Cher

[TeeYiYi]

22. I felt the same way about Matt Lauer's interview . . .

. . . with Michael Moore. What what a couple of hacks. I didn't see Hanna Storm's interview but I saw Matt Lauer's while it was happeneing and I thought his tiny head was going to explode. They're both hacks. When Moore came back for a follow-up interview on the Today Show, it was Katie Couric that conducted the interview. I'll bet you anything Matt was cut out of the deal.

Michael Moore will be on the Today Show today. I wonder who will do the honors? :7

Michael Moore has been the consumate professional through every interview I've seen him in so far. He handles the vitriol with ease.

He's coming up next. It's 7:42 here . . .

TYY

[liveoaktx]

23. Have to contrast her interrupting him with how the Irish reporter did Bush

Unlike Bush, who whinily complained that he was cut off without finishing his whole spiel, and then had to start all over with his memorized speech, Moore and almost anyone else CAN THINK ON HIS FEET and adapt to interruptions.

After reading "Republican Noise Machine" and "What Liberal Media", no one should fall anymore for the arguments "thinking for yourself" after watching something, since the RW continually is presenting opinions on cable news to influence others.

[Cat Atomic]

25. Oh my god! Talk about a dip! Did you see where she

demanded of Moore, "so this is a personal attack?".

Moore replies, "hmm.. yes", and Storm keeps nodding, clearly pleased with her skills as investigative journalist. Hahaha! What a fucking joke she is.

[donhakman]

28. Hanna Storm does football games - she's not an inves. reporter

.

[KittyWampus]

52. Hanna Does Football Teams?

:evilgrin:

[3trievers]

27. Thanks for the link

Hannah Storm was spanked by the "rube" from Flint.Its always a victory when your opponent is limited to hurling invectives.These media types always under-estimate the debating skills of Mr Moore.

[Tellurian]

29. Yes, Hannah Storm is a disgrace to journalists..

She is more concerned about attacks on the pResident than the soldiers dying in Iraq for the lie she helped propagate. She showed no remorse or even consideration for the injustice she's done to the American people who watch CBS.

[gatlingforme]

30. I saw that interview and I felt the same way as you --- I do not

watch that channel and ever that show, but when I tuned it in I thought the interviewer was so bad that she had to be new or something? The questions she asked and how she followed up on them were terrible. MM was excellent and he really told her off. you could tell she was very uneasy and could not handle it. LOL

[southlandshari]

31. write to CBS and let them know what you think

Click on "contact us" at the bottom of the web page with the Hannah Storm video link and let CBS know what you think. I did.

[lil-petunia]

33. A suggestion

go to the web site, write a quiet, polite, sad letter, expressing dismay at the total lack of talent at CBS news - if hanna is indicative of their journaliztic pool of talent.
Suggest that you will spend your hard earned dollars supporting advertisers from other channels, unless they train her to become a professional.

The lower key and sadder, the bigger the impact.

Oh, ad buyers for such programs review letters to the editor, etc to get a flavor for what the public thinks. If a reporter stinks, they DO do something about it.

start writing, folks.

[southlandshari]

36. kick

for encouraging feedback.

Please tell CBS what you think!

On edit:

Cheswick already posted this, but here it is again (contact info for CBS news):

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

(follow "contact us" link at bottom of page)

[lil-petunia]

45. didnot see your earlier post

but, grate myndes tink alyke.

ryte?

[kentuck]

37. I think his next movie should be about the "news media"..

...and the sooner the better..

[ContinentalOp]

43. That's what she said.

I loved it when she told him that his next movie should be about the media in an attempt to get him to shut up about the media and get back "on topic." He had to calmly point out that F911 is largely about the media and went right on attacking! That part was great.

[Mandate My Ass]

39. Unprofessional and pathetic

She was trying so hard to put words in his mouth and he wouldn't let her. I heard Katie was the same way with him.

Funny how they didn't get their panties in a bunch when somebody attacked President Clinton, then or now.

[Sweetpea]

40. I think these reporters have learned to get more work they have

to appear tough to LIBERALS.

[Eurobabe]

42. OHMYFingGOD!

That was WONDERFUL! You made my day...

Thanks for posting the link, Perfect Storm got decimated...just another RW/DC reporter who doesn't get it: satirical documentary hon!

The more steamed they are, the more they know that we're onto their insidious bullshit.

[rman]

44. wow :)

Like Mike says: "(he) *should* do a movie about network news"

and we have this thread encouraging him to do exactly that:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1879377&mesg_id=1879377

[Beetwasher]

46. They SOOO Want To Change The Subject From Their Own Responsibility

They can't take the fact that he's calling them out...

[Veggie Meathead]

48. Hannah Storm comes from the same school of journalism as

Sally Quinn. She is married to one of the big wheels at the news division of NBC or CBS.

[redqueen]

50. I love that they included this in the piece!

“We may not have even gone into this war, had these networks done their job. I mean, it was a great disservice to the American people because we depend on people who work here and the other networks to go after those in power and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute. You want to send our kids off to war? We want to know where the weapons of mass destruction are. Let’s see the proof. Let’s see the proof Saddam Hussein had something to do with Sept. 11.' There was no proof and everybody got embedded and everybody rolled over and everybody knows that now,” he says.

Storm notes the one thing that journalists try to do is present both sides of the story and "it could be argued you did not do that in this movie."

“I certainly didn’t. That’s right. I present my side,” Moore says. “Because my side, that’s the side of millions of Americans, rarely gets told. And so this is just a humble plea on my behalf, not to you personally, Hannah, but I’ m saying to journalists in general that instead of working so hard to tell both sides of the story, why don’t you just tell that one side, which is the administration's. Why don’t you ask them the hard questions?”

Moore points out at the beginning of the war there was a lot of “cheerleading going on. A lot of cheerleading that didn’t do the public any good to have journalists standing in front of the camera going whoopty-do, let’s all go to war. It’s not their kids going to war. It’s not the children of the news executives going to war.”

--------

They could have left all that out but didn't. That says a lot to me.

[Shopaholic]

51. Jon Stewart cracked on ole' Hannah last night over this

interview. He said something to the effect that Michael had spanked Hannah on her own show! It was hilarious. I couldn't get over how angry, defensive, and openly hostile she appeared from the beginning of the interview. It looked to me like she had her upper lip curled into a snarl from the word "go" on this interview. She had an agenda-too bad (not) that Michael bitch-slapped her.

Link to interview here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/25/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main626088.shtml

[KittyWampus]

53. Jon Said "Ambushed". I Couldn't BELIEVE How Snotty She Was

honestly HOSTILE. NEVER seen anything like it.

[Nomad559]

58. Direct link for video

Streaming Video Link

[cybildisobedience]

60. WOW....

I'd read part of the transcript, and saw the clip on the Daily Show last night, but WOW.....
could she have BEEN more of a Bush whore?
Could she have shown more contempt and disgust for anything that didn't praise her great leader, George Bush.
Her tone was smarmy, condescending and worst of all, highly unprofessional.
These "journalists" are really getting the smackdown they deserve, courtesy of Mr. Moore.
She did raise one good point though -- The next movie of his should be about network news. It would be an instant classic.

Thanks for the direct link...

[FizzFuzz]

54. that was my reaction to reading the article too; it struck me cuz

you so rarely SEE a liberal's actual rebuttal get printed anymore. I was glad to see it too.

[Cocoa]

55. she looked like she was disciplining him

she looked like an uptight high school principal scolding Moore for acting up in class.

[FizzFuzz]

56. well, just watched the clip

thanks for including that.

So, could Hanna Storm have sounded any more disdainful?? I don't watch TV at all anymore so this is my first time seeing her, and I don't see others either but isn't an interviewer supposed to sound serious but not dripping with disgust? From the moment she opens her mouth she sounds like an executioner..well no a proper executioner is supposed to be impassive. Her tone sounded like she's barely containing her thoughts of "you liar. I hate you, I hate you. you big liar." I was not impressed.

He did great, not meeting her aggressive hand waves and stopping motions with raised arms, and keeping his voice soft but firm.!! Talk about softly but carry a big stick!!!! YAYAYAY Micheal!

[Catherine Vincent]

57. I thought her expertise was Sports?

[opihimoimoi]

59. Those Pubs and their Psyops, its not working any more, get over it.

Despite bush coverage 24/7 and all the spinmeisters, all the Hate Radio beefing up the Anger Level, its a dud, not working.

Bush is Toast.

Moore Rocks.

[depakid]

61. Brought to you by Wallmart.... Fu..ing sick (n/t)

[Zinfandel]

62. Why is Hanna Storm such a piggy right-wing journalist? Even though...

Bush has lied and lied...

We know Storm loves her well paid privilege life. However if one calls themselves a journalist they should at the very least DEMAND answers from Bush about his lies.

Bush goes in front of the cameras and tells everyone he's the education president and at the very same time, his administration is cutting student loans 3.2 billion dollars. Journalist don't ask the tough questions.

Bush goes in front of the cameras and tells everyone he supports American veterans and behind the scenes he cut billions from Veterans health benefits...

This IS the republican way, this is their ideology, they despise social programs for the poor (but not the corporations and the wealthy) then go on camera and lie about it and the corporate media never questions Bush, even protects Bush.

Bush goes in front of the cameras and tells everyone he's the environmental president, and off camera he completely guts the EPA, supports all de-regulation, allows increase in Mercury levels, allows more toxic waste in the air and water, etc. because it'll benefit his campaign donors the corporations and the rich stockholders...BushCo has even changed pollution laws, so it's the tax payers (who are the middle class, certainly NOT the corporation who pay little or no taxes) will foot the bill for corporate pollution and clean up.

This goes on and on and the press does nothing but report Rove's White House spin each day...and talking heads like Limbaugh, Hannity pound the lies into peoples day after day after day.