Class IV rapids. Family hobby gone tragically awry. Tearful parents set aside their differences and share an agonizing vigil at Cataract Canyon.
CNN employs a "virtual river" wall map and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. MSNBC's split screen contrasts the real-time crisis with flashbacks to happier times in the Jon and Kate marriage. On HLN, a whitewater guide warns of dire odds against the children's survival if they enter the class V Gore Rapid. "The Gore is likely unrunnable in a tinfoil craft. I wouldn't attempt it."
Jon mans up. Kate is stoic, but her hair looks like a rat's nest. We've never seen her this vulnerable
Reynolds Aluminum assembles a team of foil-construction consultants. Alcoa pledges to cover the cost of a worst-case wilderness recovery operation.
Skeptics flood the blogosphere with snark.
I am riveted to my TV set for two hours, praying to the agnostics' God and sobbing like a child.
Hope is a glimpse of silver foil bobbing in the foam. Discarded Kit-Kat wrapper? Or one of the sextuplets?
For a cynic, I'm kind of gullible.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta demonstrates hypothermia.
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You never said who was in the tin-foil kayak. I hope it was that bitch Kate.
Psst, I'm kind of gullible too, or so says my agnostic God.
:)
I saw both the GMA (Diane Sawyer) interview and the one on Today (Meredith Viera). The kid puked on both shows, but at least on GMA Diane expressed concern for the kid, on the Today show Meredith kind of took her cue from the father and ignored the fact that the kid was barfing up his guts and just kept prattling on. I kept thinking, wow, not only do we have parents using their kids for fame but a "reporter" who is also a mother, just carries on full tilt, like an accessory to the abuse.
well written!
great job