So basically, the news media are just talking out of their asses?

[redgreenandblue]

Epic media fail...

[elleng]

1. Not at all.

NBC/MSNBC doing well.

[babylonsister]

3. Yep, they're confirming sources, not putting anything

out there that isn't legit AFAIK.

[elleng]

6. Hi!

My traveler has returned from J'ville w repaired car, and is HAPPY!

[babylonsister]

11. Yay all around!

[a kennedy]

14. I bet Joe Scar is not happy not being live and on TV.....

I think Mika is doing a great job. edit for correct spelling.

[elleng]

15. She's only been on for a short time;

I've been watching/listening to NBC for hours.

[Earth_First]

2. Yep.

Enjoy the show.

[babylonsister]

4. No. nt

[bemildred]

5. Yep. It pays real well too. nt

[NoPasaran]

7. Nope

Not necessarily so for everything you read on the internet, however.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Pretty much so, yes. nt

[chillfactor]

9. MSNBC has been doing an excellent job

they double check everything before they air it....

[hobbit709]

10. nothing new there.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Why do you say that?

[redgreenandblue]

16. The reports on the Boston bombing have been, let's say, confusing...

[JI7]

17. more so because of the internet rumors ,

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. The situation is literally changing by the second

Other than the NY Post, I think it's been pretty good, especially the Boston media, given the circumstances.

[JI7]

13. msnbc got it right, but we are talking out of our asses also with the missing student and the first

two guys that were accused all over the internet on the 2nd day.

[MOTRDemocrat]

19. Pete Williams is doing an excellent job...

During chaotic situations, things are going to get misreported.

But I sure as hell wouldn't want to wait until 5PM like the old days to get the tightly packaged story.

[KharmaTrain]

20. It's What Happens When Events More Fast...

...and it's not just the media that has been talking out of their asses...I've seen plenty of posts on websites (DU included) loaded with conjecture rather than fact...dropping names that were wrong and trying to get ahead of events. Kudos to MSNBC for sticking with the old journalism axiom of check and then check again...Pete Williams has held back on information until it's been verified.

The nature of the beast of 24/7 news is that you have minutes of excitement followed by hours of void...thus the endless looping of video and the parade of "experts" who will spin and speculate with the little fragments of information available.

As far as Chicken Noodle Nuze jumping the gun the other day on a supposed arrest...yep, an epic failure of a desperate news operation trying to gain some much needed PR...and it's blown up in their faces. For the most part, much of the media coverage has been measured...

[olddots]

21. who said " we used to be afraid Big Brother was watching us

and now we're watching Big brother " ?

I wish it was an epic media fail but the media has become too big to fail .They take 5 minutes of info and make it fill 5 hours between commercials for anti depressants and heart burn meds .

Who has slept in the last few days ?

[spin]

22. I watched all three cable news networks through the night. ...

CNN was lost in space. Fox News was somewhat better. MSNBC was by far the best.