Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sx7000.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!ncs-med!sx7000!blake From: blake@sx7000.UUCP (Chris Blake) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Re: The Press parasites Message-ID: <106@sx7000.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 13:08:48 EST Article-I.D.: sx7000.106 Posted: Wed Feb 5 13:08:48 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:49:28 EST References: <185@sivax.UUCP> Organization: SPERRY Information Systems - Roseville, MN Lines: 25 > Bob Czech writes: > > > > It's been about 4 hours since the Challenger blew up and the most disgusting aspect of this whole accident is the way the press has handled it. This is > > usually the problem that most people find with great tragedies. Nothing bothered us more here at CCCC more than the way that ABC, descretely (said in REAL > > sarcasm), enabled us to view the teacher's parents as the Challenger ascended and then after the explosion. It's one thing to drag out an apparent accident, > > but another to feed and use upon human emotions as they did. > > Don't forget why the press is there...to report. They don't enjoy having > to bring reality to the screen, but what happens, happens. What else can > they do? Run Bugs Bunny cartoons? Of course not. They're not there to make I wouldn't complain if all they did was report what happened without exploitating the fact that it happened. They don't have to play Bugs Bunny cartoons. There's plenty going on in the world other than the unfortunate shuttle disaster. The media should simply report what happened, show the accident tape I know we've all seen > 100 times, and thats it. No need to show close ups of the crowd's faces with their party hats on. No need to report over and over that noone knows what happened. No need to interview people who had nothing to do with the matter at all. It was a terrible thing, but the media went crazy. They did more than just inform us. By 12 noon the day it happened I'm sure everyone in North America heard of what had happened. But for the next 3 days all that was on TV was about the shuttle. No new news except that there was no new news. But they had to boost their ratings "More on the Challenger at 5". It was as bad as the summit meetings!