Can You Find A Better Witness or Better Editor?

I was watching one of the news channels today. One of the BIG stories was the landing of the first plane from Lebanon carrying American citizens. I was so relieved to see it land safely in Baltimore and happy for their families. I still pray for the rest of the travelers to find flights and land safely here too.

Anyway, they were interviewing some of the passengers. They interviewed one guy who basically just said "yes" or "no" to the questions, not elaborating very much. So he really didn't add to the story, give any human interest tilt to it. But what I found really funny (maybe he was nervous) was when he was talking about playing basketball with some of the Lebanese men. They showed a clip of the event and he said something like this "there is them and there's us the Americans". What? That's what you can say about the relations between you and them? There is us, and there is them? Okay thanks!!!

Why is it that news people always find some uninteresting people to interview? On another channel, there was some better interviews. The one I liked was an interview with a college student and his younger brother. They both talked about how helpful the embassy was in facilitating their exit. They talked about how they had spent their vacation in Lebanon and also described their feelings about the chaos. Much better editor and much better interview.