The still missing Malaysian airliner is still one of the top stories, three weeks after it vanished, and there is significant criticism of the cable news channels for focusing too much attention on the story.
PEW Center for the people and the press did a study to find out what news consumers think. Too much coverage? Too little? Just right?
###
I missed it the week it happened, but an MSNBC host apparently made an understandable error.
He identified Alabama Governor George Wallace as a Republican.
Wallace was, of course, an Alabama Democrat, or a Dixiecrat as they were called because there were no Republicans in Alabama back then, just very conservative Democrats, less conservative Democrats, and those other Democrats, mostly black, who sided with the National Democratic Party.
###
True stories: Read this part of a story about the Washington State landslide that killed dozens of people:
Jessica Neal, 30, said she found comfort from Wednesday's recovery of the body of her father-in-law, Steve Neal, a hot water heater installer who was working at a house hit by the slide, and in learning that he apparently did not suffer long.
"The coroner had details that it was fast," she said, as she fought back tears.
I've been writing news for a long time, and I have never heard a coroner say anything except the victim died fast. Surely there were a few here and there who suffered long agonizing deaths?
Sometimes we report lies, knowing that they are.
And that's probably a good thing.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of Tim Lennox.com]
No comments:
Post a Comment