(From Newsblues)On Friday's TODAY SHOW, blondiful MSNBC actress/correspondent MICHELLE KOSINSKI paddled a canoe on camera to illustrate flooding conditions in New Jersey, a fine example of participatory journalism that would have made any news consultant proud.
Until the illusion was shattered by two men walking between her and the camera, in ankle-deep water.
MATT LAUER tried to keep a straight face, joking about the
"holy men" who were walking on water. KATIE COURIC asked if Kosinski had run aground.
Laughs all around -- until you recognize the delicious irony of how perfectly the ruse represented the increasing shallowness of morning television and how programs like NBC's TODAY have steadily shifted away from legitimate news and more toward the made up world of entertainment, giving viewers only the fleeting illusion of reality.
By the way, an NBC spokesperson reportedly defended Kosinski and said (and we are not making this up) that there was no attempt to "pass it off as something it wasn't."
Check out the video clip here.
Tim Harmon, thanks for the post.
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