Hi Blonde, are you referring to the occasional reporter or producer that decides that they are the story instead of the story? Sure, I'll give you that...it annoys me just as much as it does you and it happens quite a bit, but be careful with the broad generalizations about the media and their motives/ habits...As a network news and sports cameraman, I shoot it like I see it and inject no bias into what I do and how I observe things...My life away from work? That's a different story...

"Instead of exposing Liberal media bias you are creating media bias with that title.  That's too bad because Kim's father does offer some thoughtful insights for better emergency search response."

So how do you feel about this ding?  Find it annoying that the lede leaves out other important info?  Find that Warner focuses on just one aspect of the situation, only barely mentioning other points offered by Mr. Kim?  Find it possibly even repugnant that Warner might possibly have been letting his personal agenda shape the story? Good.

Now magnify that about 100 times and you might (but I doubt it) realize how sickened the Bush Administration, Republicans in general and most who comment here feel at the end of EVERY SINGLE DAY having endured the exact same thing by the media you choose to defend, while criticizing Warner for supposedly the same behavior.  What's good for the goose......

Yet, the hypocrisy of your comment obviously escapes you, so let me draw a picture to make this a little clearer. Remember the reporting on Katrina?  How could you forget (what with all of the thousands of stories of supposed murders, rapes and baby-eating)?  Let me share a jewel that landed in my email this morning:

WEATHER BULLETIN
   
Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event---  may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
 
FYI:
George Bush did not come.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No
Geraldo Rivera.
   
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
   
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
   
Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
   
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
penny.
  
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments
delivered it to the snowbound families.
  
Families took in the stranded people -- total strangers.
  
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman
lanterns.
   
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die."
   
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of
a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades
votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.

How refreshing, average Americans helping other average Americans. Particularly without relying totally on the government. Or relying on Hollywood elites that don't have enough sense to insert the transom drain plug before launching their boats.  Or even relying on the beyond-reproach media saving the day single-mouthedly with only a microphone to offer the stranded. The above blizzard-stricken, take-care-of-biz attitude is what made this country great. Not more government regulations that you propose. Not the media hysterically pointing fingers and getting in the way, that you callously disregard in your comment. And certainly not those, such as yourself, that are willing to give the media a lifetime pass to shape the news as long as it fit's your agenda.  That's too bad because Mr. Kim's father does offer at least one thoughtful insight and Warner had to highlight it as your precious media hystorically hasn't done so.