May 17, 2008...12:03 pm
STFU ABOUT MELISSA BLOCK ALREADY
Okay. So times are tough in the news industry. And the business folks who run that show are doing their best to promote their outlets as being the best at what they do cause, fuck, lots of people are loosing their jobs and no one wants that to happen to them.
That’s all totally fair.
BUT. NPR has been going absolutely CNN this past week with the fact that Melissa Block happened to be in–happened, like WALKED RIGHT THE FUCK INTO–Sichuan when that massive earthquake rocked the shit out of China. First there was an onslaught of 10-second Melissa-Block-was-there style spots. Now, that jackass that hosts “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” has made her into one of his lightening-round questions: Blank was there when an earthquake rocked the shit out of China (or words to that affect).
Enough already. One: Yeah, she was there. CAUSE SHE WAS THERE ANYWAY. I mean, she’d gone to help put together a series of reports on the country for an All Things Considered thingy that was scheduled to run next week. IT’S NOT LIKE SHE’S SUCH AN AMAZING REPORTER THAT SHE SNOOPED OUT THE FACT THAT THE QUAKE WAS COMING AND DEMANDED A TICKET TO CHINA. Melissa Block was there…BY ACCIDENT. JESUS. Two: Hello? You’re supposed to be National Public Radio, an institution that–if we believe the image–is more Sgt. Joe Friday than scenery-chewing Anderson Cooper. CMON!
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