[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;46248460]I wonder if other cable news anchors are also as sane as he is, but choose to act as an insane person just to make money.[/QUOTE]
In Bill O'Reilly's "Killing" books you see the real side of him, a calmer more rational side that rarely comes out on his program, which I used to watch regularly with my parents. I used to be a frequent watcher of Fox News (My parents always watch it), and most of their anchors are very reasonable, rational, and offer valid points. However, they are overshadowed by the studio's agenda and its extreme pundits such as Sean Hannity and Megan Kelly. Brett Bear, Greta Van Susteren, Jenene Pirro, and quite a few others including Shep Smith are legitimately professional journalists. So your point is very valid as Fox twists a lot of stories that they report on, though the anchors that are locked in and highly respected by the viewers can still rational points across even when it does not follow the standards of the company.
[editline]16th October 2014[/editline]
I also gotta give props for Shep speaking the truth on Ebola. It's not moral at all for any media agency to instill fear on the public for ratings. It's just not right.
It's always nice to see that even public figures like news anchors are just humans afterall. Makes them seem genuine and less robotic.
I've always watched Shepard Smith talk whenever he was on, he's the only one who makes sense, doesn't make a headline SUPER SENSATIONAL and he's funny as shit sometimes.
It's nice to see some this from Fox, but saying the US should not be at all concerned is not true. Ebola is going to be a very big concern for Americans, and the rest of the world in a short time. It won't be the handful of cases in the US so far that will be the source of the issue, but the CDC estimated 1.4 million people infected in West Africa with a 70% mortality rate by Jan, 10 2015 that can only be slowed if 70% of the infected can be isolated, which is impossible. They can't contain it now, and it doubles ever 15-20 days.
Our medical system needs to have a rapid change of policy enacted and start training their nurses, doctors and staff to deal with situations like what was seen in Texas properly. They are absolutely not prepared for an outbreak of any reasonable size when it comes down to it.
Hell, at the Hospital my dad works at, he's an MSN simulations instructor and a ICU nurse, they have never once talked about what they would do if they faced even a single patient with Ebola. In a hospital of 3,000 employees they have a whopping four people who took a weekend training course on dealing with infectious deseieses and using HAZMAT level protection. Most of the talk around the hospital is talk about quitting, or refusing to work, if a case of Ebola shows up because they know how unprepared the hospital is at dealing with it and how dangerous the working conditions would because of that. The administration is treating it like a non-issue.
For anyone interested, here's the CDC paper, co-authored by nine experts in the field. It's worth reading.
[URL]http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6303a1.htm?s_cid=su6303a1_w[/URL]
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;46243271]Coming from a Fox News anchor, I must say it. Wow.[/QUOTE]
Or fox news scripted it in order to appeal to a wider audience
[QUOTE=SuPeR_MaN;46252799]Or fox news scripted it in order to appeal to a wider audience[/QUOTE]
This must be it. Otherwise, I would have to adjust my simplified, stereotype-filled world-view, and that just cannot happen!
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