Actor/comedian Harry Shearer has posted raw footage of Diane Sawyer preparing for a live broadcast from the disaster area in Joplin, Missouri:
"This is a portrait of a fly-in anchor covering a disaster," Shearer says in a statement. "Diane may be Diane, but this is pretty much what you get when you send high-priced anchor talent into a place where everything has fallen apart and nothing works. The quote, 'I have nothing,' of course, should more appropriately be coming from a tornado victim.'"
Is that really what's going on here? The footage shows the entire crew, not just Sawyer, looking disorganised and shaken after losing power in the middle of a storm. What we don't see is how they recover from the problem. Did they continue struggling when the camera went live or did they pull together and get through it?
I'm all for taking self-important celebrities down a notch, but if Diane Sawyer managed to provide solid coverage in a disaster area without a script, then I don't really mind that she gets paid a lot for doing her job.
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