If you look at the current coverage, CNN has already broken out their fancy 3-D CGI and MSNBC
Not my channels. I'm more of a BBC kind of guy
has already stepped on its own foot when one of their anchors, Krystal Ball
I should point out that according to wiki she is 'a businesswoman, certified public accountant, and a co-host on the MSNBC show The Cycle. She was the Democratic Party nominee for United States Congress in Virginia's 1st congressional district in the 2010 election, losing to Republican Rob Wittman.'
Krystal Ball (hippie parents anyone??)
A physicist, actually.
let a prank caller onto the air
I'm pretty sure she didn't vet the call and greenlight it to go on the air. I think she was a bit busy for that.
claiming to be a Sgt. in the Ukrainian Military.
Her only 'mistake' was missing the 'out of Howard Stern's ass' line, but ignoring what seem to be perceptual errors like that is part of her job - it was the editors that didn't cut him off in time to avoid the 'dumbass' remark. He should have carried on the interview as normal - that would have been much funnier than a cheap jibe.
He had a good American accent for a Ukrainian sergeant, didn't he?
But your point remains. Hungry for novelty, the news media is not bothering with presenting a developed story but instead is more or less forced by being 24 hours into a position of continuously covering a developing story and consequently there's a lot of stupid filler jabber and 'reactions'.
On a side note, has anybody locked down the nuke plants in the Ukraine?
There is only
Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant that is of concern. It's not in the hands of the separatists and the one attempt to gain control that has been made was prevented by police, presumably having locked down the nuclear power plant in an unstable region.
They blew one sky high just from a safety test in the 80s.
The Russian separatists did not cause Chernobyl. That was a series of things, including Soviet disinclination to spend money on safety. If the right safety systems were installed before they started using the nuclear power plant, they wouldn't have had to have test them while it was generating 700 million Watts during operating hours, for example.
In short - modern Ukrainian power plants are probably more safe than early 80s Soviet builds, only one of them is close to the action and they seem to be on it.
God only knows what might happen to them in a civil war!
At this juncture, it's not a
civil war affecting them that we should be most worried about.
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