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  • From: bethellison AT netscape.net (Beth)
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] journalism & sensationalism
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:41:50 -0400

Dude, Elizabeth Gardner is a wee gal. Perhaps, maybe just perhaps, she needed
an anchor and the other, larger folk in the shot were in less danger of being
blown away by the winds.

I may be naive in my thinking on this. I'm just saying.

Beth


"Scott Lundgren" <s_l AT mindspring.com> wrote:

>
>This afternoon between 1:30 and 2pm I was watching WRAL's Isabel coverage.
>As Elizabeth Gardner stood in the wind reporting about the conditions at the
>beach, a member of the newsteam was clearly in the shot kneeling to her
>right and clutching her leg. One could infer this was to keep her from
>blowing away in the fierce winds. In the middle of her report 3 people in
>rain gear walked behind her in the shot with seemingly no difficulty. One of
>them put his hands up in a classic "shout-outs-to-my-peeps-I'm-on-TV" pose.
>Neither of the people in the background looked like offensive lineman but
>general lanky males.
>
>I realize sensationalism crept into local news as the newsroom came under
>pressure to be just as much a profit center. Besides applying market force
>in the form of changing the channel, and generally displaying my disgust at
>staging a shot in search of ratings, what can be done to discourage future
>behavior ? If media is supposed to be policing government, who's policing
>media?
>
>- SL
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