The Boston Marathon tragedy was hard to take but the way
that tragedy was handled by the main media outlets was just unacceptable.
There is just absolutely no reason to cover a tragedy 24/7
when there is NOTHING new to report.
The media must think that the public expects them to stay on
the scene for days upon days and show the same video of the explosion over and
over and over and over again. Asking people how they feel about what just
happened is MORONIC after days and days of the same.
I had to turn to CNN Headline News which is obligated to
show other news events of the day because I just could not take anymore.
I was happy to see an article in the Detroit News by Maria
Servold titled NEWS MEDIA FARES POORLY IN BOSTON.
As a trained journalist, she knows that a journalist does
not report anything without corroboration or at least a number of corroborating
sources but here networks priding themselves on being objective and responsible
journalists and they are nothing of the sort.
They report rumors that are not true in the hope that they
will be true and they could say that they were the FIRST to break that news…BULLSHIT!
I am very disappointed that ratings has corrupted responsible
journalism into a three ring circus and CNN, I am most disappointed in you
because I thought you were the last of a true journalistic station…ratings mean
money and I guess you have to follow the crowd or die.
This means that we have to wait for the paper in the morning
and hope they still follow journalistic rules.
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