We spend time learning WHAT media workers do, but it's just as important to think about HOW they do it and WHY they do it. Let's get some ideas percolating about what we see and how it affects us. I call it "Sunrise on Media" because I often arrive at work obscenely early and will update this blog then.
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I think journalists can report on whatever they want, whatever one person subjectively decides is news. I believe news does not exist independently of the media that create it. I give credit to the Rocky Mountain News for changing with the times and using a new technology to do their reporting. The Rocky Mountain News sounds like a joke of a newspaper compared to "gold standard" NY Times (scoff), but at least the RMN realizes times are changing and twitter-type news may be the way of the newspaper future.
Also, the media have no buisness covering irrelevant and insensitive stories like the death of a child who is not a public figure. This is not life-changing for most would-be readers and will be forgotten in a week or less.
What could they possibly blog about? "More people cry... this is terrible... more people cry" I don't even see enough content to do it.
Well, I think part of the problem is that fact that the news have become dependent on us. We, the audience, influence the news everyday.
We do have the influence for news, but reporting on a funeral could be seen as inappropriate and insensitive.
This seems like a bad fusion of ideas. Live blogging, fine. Writing an emotional piece about a funeral, great. Putting them together? What does that do for readers? Live blogging is better for up to the minute information. The welling of emotion and sorrow just doesn’t need to be delivered that fast.
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