It would have been nice to see the cable news channels clean up their acts a bit, maybe show a little class in their reporting on one of the most tragic stories they've ever reported. Instead, we heard CNN anchor Don Lemon say this to the students at Virginia Tech:
I guess I'm glad I wasn't watching a cable news channel when 9/11 happened, because if I had been, I might have started believing that Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Queda or something else completely false.
That's enough ranting for me. Read this very well-written article from Alessandra Stanley if you want a really good dressing-down of our nation's television news media.
"Stay out of harm's way, but send us your pictures and video."And then the endless parade of "experts" and the ominous on-screen graphics proclaiming "Deadliest Shooting." I just turned on MSNBC here, some 14 hours after the horrific rampage was over, to see "BREAKING NEWS: Shooter among 33 dead."
I guess I'm glad I wasn't watching a cable news channel when 9/11 happened, because if I had been, I might have started believing that Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Queda or something else completely false.
That's enough ranting for me. Read this very well-written article from Alessandra Stanley if you want a really good dressing-down of our nation's television news media.
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