The Attack of the Media!
Most of you may now have heard by now that Olympic Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis made a mistake on the last hill of her run, fell because of the trick she tried to pull and lost the Gold medal because of it. Now this is truly a sad thing. For an athlete to work so hard to get the Gold medal... have it in her sights... then to make a mistake. However, she is human. We all make mistakes. Life goes on. Here is what Lindsey had to say about the incident, "I was having fun," Jacobellis said. "Snowboarding is fun. I was ahead. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the crowd. I messed up. Oh well, it happens."
Certainly a good attitude to have about the situation!! However, I was watching some of the olympics and NBC... YES... NBC consistently talked about the incident over and over and over. Come on now, we all make mistakes... report it then get on with life. Yes, the incident was worth doing a report, but not worth the carrying and commotion I saw them do on NBC. This situation just made the water run over in my mind. I have been fed up with the Media for awhile now because of their desire to humiliate people. They have turned a resource where people can get information to a competition of who can saturate with the most coverage and who can humiliate a victim im sorry a subject of the news the most. Take the Dick Cheney hunting situation... Sure it was worth reporting, but was it worth having 5 days of nonstop coverage on CNN. No! It affected a couple of men and their families. The hunter is recovering fine and no the VP did not shoot him on purpose. Accident!!!! We all have them. Besides hunting accidents happen all the time by nonfamous people and there is no 5 day nonstop coverage of the incident. Their only goal during this time was to humiliate the Vice President and to have America hate the Vice President.
So here is my point. When will we have a media that reports news...then tries to help people overcome difficult situations in their lives? When will this time of positive news occur? I hope it is soon because it is embarrassing to me that we as respectable people let the media humiliate others.
Certainly a good attitude to have about the situation!! However, I was watching some of the olympics and NBC... YES... NBC consistently talked about the incident over and over and over. Come on now, we all make mistakes... report it then get on with life. Yes, the incident was worth doing a report, but not worth the carrying and commotion I saw them do on NBC. This situation just made the water run over in my mind. I have been fed up with the Media for awhile now because of their desire to humiliate people. They have turned a resource where people can get information to a competition of who can saturate with the most coverage and who can humiliate a victim im sorry a subject of the news the most. Take the Dick Cheney hunting situation... Sure it was worth reporting, but was it worth having 5 days of nonstop coverage on CNN. No! It affected a couple of men and their families. The hunter is recovering fine and no the VP did not shoot him on purpose. Accident!!!! We all have them. Besides hunting accidents happen all the time by nonfamous people and there is no 5 day nonstop coverage of the incident. Their only goal during this time was to humiliate the Vice President and to have America hate the Vice President.
So here is my point. When will we have a media that reports news...then tries to help people overcome difficult situations in their lives? When will this time of positive news occur? I hope it is soon because it is embarrassing to me that we as respectable people let the media humiliate others.
posted by Mr. President at 2:36 AM
1 Comments:
An unbiased media would be impossible. The reason is because people can view the news without a bias and the people that make the news will never be seen as unbiased. Frankly, people are all biased. The media covers what people want to know about. It's a business like anything else. You are right that I don't care about the joe smo hunting accident, but I like to hear about the vp one. Same reason I like to hear the President speak over a random guy. It is entertainment and 10% informative. So there you have it.
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