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0 pointsdghughes6y ago0 comments

I disagree.

News reports what happened. These days people seem to see news organizations as the enemy or at least the news organizations they don't like.

Although one thing I have noticed about news these days is it tends to voice personal opinion openly much more than years ago. Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings wouldn't spout their own opinion they'd tell you what happened, and that's it.

Show the bodies, name the attackers, send reports to the NRA, government officials don't take no for an answer hound them day and night for a reply. Make it uncomfortable for everyone so much so that everyone wants to prevent another event from occurring.

There is no way to hide what happened or who did it in this age of information. If information lacking people just make up their own story or create conspiracy theories to fill the void.

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airforce16y ago

> News reports what happened.

selectively reports what happened, and only if it tells the right narrative and/or generates clicks, yes.

Mass shooting where 3 innocents die = clicks and correct narrative and will therefore be reported.

DUI crash where 5 innocents die = boring, wrong narrative; no report

Civilian kills police officer = boring, wrong narrative; no report

Police officer kills civilian (esp. with different color skin) = clicks and correct narrative and will therefore be reported

ceejayoz6y ago

> Civilian kills police officer = boring, wrong narrative; no report

You're kidding, right?

Cops getting doused in water got national news coverage.

So'd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_killings_of_NYPD_officers

jlawson6y ago

The case you cited isn't just a civilian killing a cop at a traffic stop or during a random crime. It's a targeted assassination of two police officers for politicial reasons. It's more terrorism than crime. This makes it very newsworthy.

Equally, if a cop went out purely to kill some black men for reasons of political revenge, that would be newsworthy in a way that a random death at a traffic stop is not.

The status quo, however, is that random traffic stop deaths of white guys are not newsworthy, but random traffic stop deaths of black guys are national news. That racist double standard is what's being called out.

agildehaus6y ago

Maybe you should subscribe to a newspaper or two because otherwise this is what you get -- news that people click on.

I wish people would stop blaming the news and blame themselves.

whatshisface6y ago

The 19th century version of clicks is "readership," and newspapers pursue it.

ojbyrne6y ago

https://youtu.be/Dn2RjahTi3M

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