Featured Oprah and Rick

I guess I am going to have to Purpose Driven Life on my reading last now.

 

Oh come on what? It's true. There is a lot more filmed than is actually used.

 

Guys, you can argue without beating each other up.

 

You mean jesus did not say that others would know us by 'how well wfight the bethren" then?

 

Or by how big of bruises we leave??

 

Saggy is right on!

In the past, I've held numerous jobs that afforded me opportunities to speak to the media on behalf of my employer [always state government jobs]. I've done everything fro quick sound bite interviews, to full on sit down interviews for Sunday afternoon news shows.

I learned early on that the media folks couldn't be trusted to properly present what I said in its full content. They were great at cutting and pasting, and coming up with a show or news clip that got me to say more of what they wanted me to say than what I actually said..

On of the biggest gaffes I let myself fall into had to do with a neat program I ran at the county school. I had adults from all career fields, go into classrooms and share about their job and why they liked it and more importantly how they needed to complete high school and college or trade school to achieve what they now had.

Along with the classroom visits, I had the students complete a survey about school.

Later that week, when being interviewed about this community wide career day event, one of the questions i was asked had to do with the survey, and I was asked about a question that asked kids if they liked their school and course work? I answered that according to the survey , something like 90% of respondents said they loved school and felt it challenging and beneficial for their next step, college or trade school. They asked about the other ten percent, and I said the 4% of the respondents felt school was boring and a complete waste of time.

You can already see where this story is going :laugh: The next day in the local and regional papers and on the news casts, I was quoted as saying that "Students at local High Schools think education is boring and a waste of time!"

Of course this caused a rift between me and the school administrators, as they felt I betrayed their trust. :tonofbricks: Luckily one of my friends, a top reporter for NBC, and a gal I was dating from the local rock radio channel, also heard the interview and stuck up for me and told the admins what happened and how the media took what they wanted to make a controversy out of nothing.

I learned from there to never again say anything that could be left on the editing room floor. :BangHead:

 

I think it was George Bush Sr., during Iran-Contra, was being interviewed on 60 Minutes and he had placed a large schoolroom style clock on the wall behind him so that video editors could not a slice and splice his statements post-production, to make him appear to say things he didn't say.

 

Can't begin to say...

...that is a tough question, SS, and surely ne only RW can answer. I know that if it were me, I'd have my way with her, especially when she makes such broad sweeping statements that there are more ways to God, then Jesus. And I can bet that two things would come out of my response.

1) It would more than likely be edited out...:tear:
2) And she would place me on her "Do not return" list! :laugh:

 

Bush was smart....

....smarter than liberals, Obama, hollywood types, entitled, racists, the entitled, illegals, and gays would want us to believe.

Thanks for that piece of information, it caused me to :laugh:

 

SolaSaint,

What is the deal with your concern of Oprah's presentation of Rick Warren?