Ok, I give up...

[Jenny_Jackson]

As an add-on to Ami's thread about the news yesterday, today I'm pissed.

I opened CNN, MSN News, Yahoo News, Rauters and what did I find? 90% of the news is story after story where some reporter did a disgusting job of playing on the survivor's horror of the shootings in Virginia.

Does this mean the rest of the world just stopped? Appearantly so, according to the major media.

104 people were NOT killed in roadside bombings in Iraq yesterday. Alberto Gonzoles did NOT get a two day set-over before embarrasing himself in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.


The pet food poisoning is over. FDA did NOT find more poisons yesterday.

But I did see that the Blackberry system is back on line. That makes it so much easier for these reporters to wire in their NON-NEWS.

 

[jomar]

I'm with you, JJ. I get ticked off when they put the microphone in the victims face and, "How did you when you saw..." Jackals. Keep us posted on important things, but give us other news too.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I'm with you, JJ. I get ticked off when they put the microphone in the victims face and, "How did you when you saw..." Jackals. Keep us posted on important things, but give us other news too.

What really pisses me off, Jomar is two things -

Lack of balance. Okay. There was a multiple murder by some nutcase in Virginia. But there was a lot of other things going on yesterday.

Second is the "peeping tom" approach. I was taught in journalism you print Who, What, Why, When and Where. I was never taught to delve into the personal saddness and fear associated with a story. Leave those people alone and let them heal!

There is plenty of news out there to report so the media needs to stop taking the easy road and humiliating these people in their terror and grief.

 

[Guest]

The interesting conjecture I read, was had this happened LAST week, Don Imus would still have his job. It wouldn't have been possible for his critics to get to critical mass with their media flacking.

 

[rgraham666]

The Ministry of Truth is doing its job, Jenny.

We're distracted and afraid. This make us easy to rule.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The interesting conjecture I read, was had this happened LAST week, Don Imus would still have his job. It wouldn't have been possible for his critics to get to critical mass with their media flacking.

I think there is some truth in that, Ted

 

[ABSTRUSE]

As an add-on to Ami's thread about the news yesterday, today I'm pissed.

I opened CNN, MSN News, Yahoo News, Rauters and what did I find? 90% of the news is story after story where some reporter did a disgusting job of playing on the survivor's horror of the shootings in Virginia.

Does this mean the rest of the world just stopped? Appearantly so, according to the major media.

104 people were NOT killed in roadside bombings in Iraq yesterday. Alberto Gonzoles did NOT get a two day set-over before embarrasing himself in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.


The pet food poisoning is over. FDA did NOT find more poisons yesterday.

But I did see that the Blackberry system is back on line. That makes it so much easier for these reporters to wire in their NON-NEWS.

and the Japanese Mayor of Nagasaki was not killed.

 

[jomar]

What really pisses me off, Jomar is two things -

Lack of balance. Okay. There was a multiple murder by some nutcase in Virginia. But there was a lot of other things going on yesterday.

Second is the "peeping tom" approach. I was taught in journalism you print Who, What, Why, When and Where. I was never taught to delve into the personal saddness and fear associated with a story. Leave those people alone and let them heal!

There is plenty of news out there to report so the media needs to stop taking the easy road and humiliating these people in their terror and grief.

I agree. It's like it's come to the point where competition for viewers (advertising money) is so fierce that coverage has to be over the top and exploitive.

 

[Weird Harold]

and the Japanese Mayor of Nagasaki was not killed.

Does that mean the non-japanese mayor(s) of Nagasaki are unharmed?

 

[CharleyH]

I'm with you, JJ. I get ticked off when they put the microphone in the victims face and, "How did you when you saw..." Jackals. Keep us posted on important things, but give us other news too.

Unfortunately - a newbie reporters job is bottom feeding. If they want to get better stories or columns, they must do the dirty work. I have talked to many reporters and even THEY don't like it and some do quit. Being a bottom feeder journalist is kind of like telemarketing and working your way up and I am sure all of us can relate to how hard that job (telemarketing) is - same with reporters.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Does that mean the non-japanese mayor(s) of Nagasaki are unharmed?

PMSL!!!

Newsflash: Abs is a dumbass!!

 

[MissT1974]

As an add-on to Ami's thread about the news yesterday, today I'm pissed.

I opened CNN, MSN News, Yahoo News, Rauters and what did I find? 90% of the news is story after story where some reporter did a disgusting job of playing on the survivor's horror of the shootings in Virginia.

Does this mean the rest of the world just stopped? Appearantly so, according to the major media.

104 people were NOT killed in roadside bombings in Iraq yesterday. Alberto Gonzoles did NOT get a two day set-over before embarrasing himself in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.


The pet food poisoning is over. FDA did NOT find more poisons yesterday.

But I did see that the Blackberry system is back on line. That makes it so much easier for these reporters to wire in their NON-NEWS.

Well put JJ

 

[jomar]

Unfortunately - a newbie reporters job is bottom feeding. If they want to get better stories or columns, they must do the dirty work. I have talked to many reporters and even THEY don't like it and some do quit. Being a bottom feeder journalist is kind of like telemarketing and working your way up and I am sure all of us can relate to how hard that job (telemarketing) is - same with reporters.

Yes, I can see how they not only have to do the dirty work as a newbie, but then probably feel dirty afterwards.

On the other hand, it does amuse me though to see the newer ones out in the cold pointing at the street where there might be ice on the road. Or measuring the snow on the roof of the car in the parking lot with a ruler.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Unfortunately - a newbie reporters job is bottom feeding. If they want to get better stories or columns, they must do the dirty work. I have talked to many reporters and even THEY don't like it and some do quit. Being a bottom feeder journalist is kind of like telemarketing and working your way up and I am sure all of us can relate to how hard that job (telemarketing) is - same with reporters.

Charley,
I would agree with you in most cases. But in this case Matt Lauer from "Today," Brian Williams from "The NBC Evening News' and every other well known newscaster had to chime in. It was more like sharks after a corps than anything.

 

[Vermilion]

If it makes you feel any better the Sun headline in the UK today was

"Girls Aloud Get Waisted"
<raises one eyebrow>

did that help?

x
V

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

If it makes you feel any better the Sun headline in the UK today was

"Girls Aloud Get Waisted"
<raises one eyebrow>

did that help?

x
V

Yes is does, V. Thank you

 

[CharleyH]

Charley,
I would agree with you in most cases. But in this case Matt Lauer from "Today," Brian Williams from "The NBC Evening News' and every other well known newscaster had to chime in. It was more like sharks after a corps than anything.

Sharks eating is merely feeding before they know what they are actually eating. \\Fine - I know you won't get it ... simplified: Matt Lauer is a TODAY SHOW HOST GOD DAMN IT!

 

[Guest]

PMSL!!!

Newsflash: Abs is a dumbass!!

Old news.

I was about to say, when will the media giants initiate events to get an audience, then I remembered, William Randolph Hearst (aka Rosebud) flacked the Spanish American War to sell papers. <sigh>

 

[kendo1]

I'm working my way up to bottomfeeder.

 

[CharleyH]

PMSL!!!

Newsflash: Abs is a dumbass!!

As for you you dumbass!

 

[starrkers]

I'm working my way up to bottomfeeder.

Been there, done that. Moved up and then out.

This tragedy/horror/shocking event (yeah, I've done my time writing headlines) occurred on the opposite side of the world to me. Yet it is still the one and only story in my newspaper. It is also being used to mount a new campaign for tougher gun control in THIS country - never mind that Virginia's laws have very little in common with ours

 

[MagicaPractica]

I had to turn on the Arthur cartoon because my other three TV stations were doing that kind of reporting.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Tomorrow is April 19th

While you're all busy fretting about VT, and please have no doubts that my heart-felt payers are with those families, but tomorrow is the anniversary of what McVeigh (and associates, possibly) did.

We hurt too!

 

[MagicaPractica]

While you're all busy fretting about VT, and please have no doubts that my heart-felt payers are with those families, but tomorrow is the anniversary of what McVeigh (and associates, possibly) did.

We hurt too!

I wouldn't refer to mourning as "fretting" but I shall remember the departed of that sad event tomorrow as well.