Reporting Or Sensationalizing The News......

[global1]

Is it just cheaper and easier for these cable news stations to keep talking about the same news story and playing the same film clips over and over every 15 to 30 minutes? What happened to real news? I'm sure there are all kinds of news stories that are being missed because we get the same stuff repeated over and over and over.

I don't know if they are just sensationalizing a story or if they can't afford to really cover the news or if it is just easier to repeat, repeat, repeat.

CNN seems to be the biggest culprit of this. They have been broadcasting 24/7 Boston. I don't want to offend the People of Boston - but I think that the news media has to let them grieve and deal with this now on their own so they can get past it and move on.

They have just learned...
We Have Breaking news....
We Have New info.....
New pictures....

Yet we still keep getting the same stories, same pictures, same news over and over and we keep getting analysis by anybody and everybody - just so they can keep the ball in the air.

What else is happening in the world? What happened to the threat from North Korea? What about jobs? What about gun safety?
What about the economy? What happened to all these stories?

Am I just getting cranky in my old age? Am I the only one that feels this way?

[SheilaT]

1. I don't want to assume laziness or cheapness,

but the very worst thing about the wall-to-wall coverage of a story, almost any story, is that other things which are equally important get excluded.

Yeah, what happened in Boston was pretty terrible, but where's the coverage of the Texas explosion that killed many more people and wounded even more?

I don't have a TV, so I tend to miss out on the worst of all this. I wake up to Amy Goodman every morning, then I get an hour of the BBC on my local community radio station.

Remember when Michael Jackson died? I actually didn't learn that all the networks went to the wall-to-wall coverage that day, until months later. Jackson's death, as senseless and tragic as it was, did NOT deserve that kind of attention. And so it is with a lot of stories they cover this way.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. But Texas was corporate terrorism, not religious,

so not nearly so newsworthy according to those in charge. Whether or not they're consciously trying to drum up anti-Muslim sentiment, that's what they're doing.

And that's all I'm going to say about that so I don't get accused again of being a terrorist sympathizer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. 24/7 cycle...they are not showing more or less video

Than they used to. They are using the viable video. It's a visual medium.

If you only have one half an hour newscast you will run it once. Ok, maybe twice...if you run it two nights on a row.

But here...you gt same story at least once an hour, guess what video you'll use?

It's a good argument for shelving the 24 hour cycle actually