‘Today’ Reporter Paddles in Shallow Water

I just don’t get it. Why do reporters do these stupid stunts to get viewership? It just makes them look foolish. Getting ready for work yesterday, I was watching this and could not stop laughing. It was so unbelievably ridiculous. She was in a green canoe paddling in ankle-deep water to show how “amazingly” flooded it was in New Jersey (granted I do know that it was deeper in some parts than others). Besides the fact that two guys walked right in front of her proving it wasn’t deep at all, as she was giving her insightful dissertation, she got carried away by the strong current of ankle-deep water behind some trees to where you couldn’t see her. In response, she started paddling all the more vigorously to try and get back in the cameras viewing range while still reporting on the situation. What’s the point? Man, it was something to behold …