the manhunt in Watertown, MA

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this search for the second bomber makes for some riveting morning TV, but the live coverage seems to me to compromise the effectiveness. Hopefully there will be no more loss of life in all of this.
 
I was up away to late last night listening to the police scanner and tracking on Twitter. Lots of locals tweeting from Watertown. And making fun of the misinformation being reported by news. Red it was key also. They crowd sourced a Google Map of events in the area.
 
I've been in broadcast journalist since 1973. And while I realize mistakes can be made, I just have to shake my head at the amount of mistakes made throughout the media lately - most as a result of the unrelenting pressure to be first.
 
I've been in broadcast journalist since 1973. And while I realize mistakes can be made, I just have to shake my head at the amount of mistakes made throughout the media lately - most as a result of the unrelenting pressure to be first.

This, +∞
 
The president declared it was an act of terrorism. He might be wrong however terrorism usually points to religious or political motives. Something we can't discuss here. Instead, I'll focus my energies towards those that grieve and the survivors as they heal and hope that this kind of behavior and whatever is behind it ceases, not just with the death of brothers but with society as a whole.

“Me and my brother against my cousins, me and my cousins against the village, me and my village against the tribe, me and my tribe against the rest of the world.” <>..<> It's time for full disclosure ;) MIB style, so it's me and my world-- and maybe.. we'll actually get along with the greys and reptilians and..
 
I've been in broadcast journalist since 1973. And while I realize mistakes can be made, I just have to shake my head at the amount of mistakes made throughout the media lately - most as a result of the unrelenting pressure to be first.

From an outsiders perspective to the news world - I would agree with u.. These days the pressure is coming from so many different sources of information.. It is just crazy. Sometimes they correct their mistake in print but it seems sometimes they just let it go...

Gary
 
It's one of the problems with 24 hours news coverage in the television and internet. In the past, we had TV news at 6-8 am in the morning, 5 pm in the afternoon and 9-10 pm at night. Now, the coverage is nonstop, and they just report whatever they find without secondary source confirmations. There is a rush to put out the information out there so that they can beat their competitors.
 
Yup, and the intense financial pressure for these news organizations to sustain themselves with advertising. Being second with the breaking story is likely worth millions of dollars of future advertising revenue. Being first but wrong is probably better financially.
 
Yup, and the intense financial pressure for these news organizations to sustain themselves with advertising. Being second with the breaking story is likely worth millions of dollars of future advertising revenue. Being first but wrong is probably better financially.

Until they get sued out of existence like the British tabloid that I cannot remember the name of right now.

Some of these organization have really sunk to a level of news worthiness and credibility that has all the signs of max profit and cost cutting as well.. I look at my local newspaper and a lot of their stuff is from ap news and what they write themselves is not well edited nor well written. That same newspaper used to have some really meat and grit in their coverage back in the 90s and early 2000s.. But definitely not now.

So sad
Gary
 
Until they get sued out of existence like the British tabloid that I cannot remember the name of right now.

Some of these organization have really sunk to a level of news worthiness and credibility that has all the signs of max profit and cost cutting as well.. I look at my local newspaper and a lot of their stuff is from ap news and what they write themselves is not well edited nor well written. That same newspaper used to have some really meat and grit in their coverage back in the 90s and early 2000s.. But definitely not now.

So sad
Gary

The Internet and its "Free" mentality has more or less killed newspapers. The print advertising revenue that newspapers have lost as people shifted their time online has not been replaced by ad revenue from websites. They popular saying is "dimes to dollars", comparing how much money a newspaper makes via an online ad vs a print ad. And now in this Twitter age, everyone is a citizen combat journalist. CNN could put 10 reporting crews in Watertown and they'd be outnumbered 100:1 by locals on Twitter. But the "crowd" is just as prone to errors, if not more so. Like last night when Redditors came to the conclusion that one of the suspects was missing Yale student Sunil Tripathi. I feel for his family, already suffering such a profound loss to have their missing son wrongly accused.
 
I am long removed from a brief career in print journalism. I've always thought that the media reacts more to what the public wants than sets the agenda for the public.

I don't disagree that sloppy reporting if too often the norm as they rush to be first, but I can also appreciate the pressures of working to get the news out when people are turning more and more to social media for first hand accounts, pics and vids of news as it happens.

Ask yourself if you would watch CNN, for example, as this stuff goes down in Mass if they would simply pull back and say "we will bring you an update when we have solid information". Would you stay on CNN or turn to Fox or a local Boston news feed on the internet or the Boston Police scanner channel from the internet or a photography forum where pro photographers on the ground were posting about the goings on?

I don't think most of us would just stay with CNN and wait for them to double-source every update. And CNN surely knows that. So we mostly get the news coverage we deserve. We want everything yesterday. Tomorrow is much too late. Threads where mature and successful adults whine about not being able to wait for their next new camera to arrive are good proof of this. :) (speaking of which, my new camera just arrived -- have to go check it out)
 
"Fox" and "the news coverage we deserve" in the same post!
Definitely it's "nail meet head, head meet nail" time ...
 
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