On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:19 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually never saw any of that coverage (I was traveling that day, and did > not get to a television until several days later) so it is hard for me to > comment on it. Journalist's job is to cover the news. Sometimes the news is > tragic and disturbing. It is not the job of journalists to censor themselves > when the events they are covering are disturbing.
It is not censorship to decide a grotesque visual image isn't necessary to tell a story. It is not censorship to decide the death of an athlete isn't breaking news (no pun intended) in a world of failing economies and global wars on terror. I agree that a journalist's job is to cover the news, but a part of that decision making process is using rational judgment to decide what is genuinely newsworthy. Again, in the context of experts breaking down what happened, there may have been cause to show it once on NBC, but nobody else had the right or the reason to air the footage. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
