Author Topic: Al Roker's smiling selfie of SC devastating rain (Read 535 times)

famousdayandyear · « **on:** October 05, 2015, 08:30:08 pm »

Smiling self-aggrandizing bucket of eels: Al Roker and NBC weasels

Paladin · « **Reply #1 on:** October 05, 2015, 08:37:42 pm »

"NBC weather wonk Al Roker apologized Monday for covering the historic flooding in South Carolina by tweeting a selfie with his crew, all grinning beside a disabled car trapped in a washed-out road.

The tweeted picture, now deleted, showed Roker and his two-person camera crew, clad in rain gear, smiling widely as they prepared to "report on East Coast flooding from S. Carolina" for NBC's Nightly News.

Behind them, a small green-yellow car lay on its side in a shallow hole left by the collapse of the side of a road.

Roker later said the woman who was driving that car got out safely. But the explanation came too late; outraged tweets soon appeared:" [tweets follow]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/10/05/al-roker-apologizes-insensitive-smile-flood-tweet/73391132/

famousdayandyear · « **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2015, 08:42:52 pm »

Of course, the smiling bleep apologized. That's what they do when receiving incoming.

By the way, it took about 7 minutes for his CYA apology to be posted.
Good work.