On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Semi related to this thread was that the evening if the standoff in the > boat CNN was on at last a ten second delay. I've made my thoughts known > about time-delaying the news. It will always annoy me. Fortunately, I was > following the news on Twitter at a bar that night, so I learned of the > guy's capture three or four minutes before anyone watching learned of it. My family was on the road, so we learned of it the same way (my daughter was following her twitter on her phone in the car, which allowed us to listen to music on the ipod while we drove). But I don't count that as any great advantage. The First Amendment says nothing about a right to real time news, and the interests of journalistic accuracy and integrity would be better served if every televised news operation worked on a 30 minute time delay, not just 10 seconds. Given the nature of this story, and the foreseeable possibility that it might end with some horrific images of bad or good guys getting blown up on national television, I think the delay was prudent. I am not against showing such images if the circumstances warrant it, but it should be an editorial judgment by the news producers, not a by product of trying to breathlessly keep up with the twitter. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
