Media at mine disaster - Democratic Underground

wallybarron

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Sun Jan-08-06 07:04 PM
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Media at mine disaster

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January 08, 2006
Media circus turns us all into spies

By Scott Finn
Staff writer

“I just want to let everyone know, this man is spying on you.”

With those words, a woman at the Sago Baptist Church has forced me to think about my profession in a different way — Am I a spy, or worse, a voyeur, a Peeping Tom into another person’s living hell?

That’s not how we reporters like to think of ourselves, and mostly, I don’t think it’s fair. But I’ve seen enough covering last week’s mine disaster to help me understand why this woman viewed me this way.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Perspective/2006010722

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MountainLaurel

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Sun Jan-08-06 07:35 PM
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1. Some good stuff in there.

:applause:

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Harper_is_Bush

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Sun Jan-08-06 07:41 PM
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2. Kudos to him for being honest about the problem....BUT

he rationalized away the truth, that the media IS a corporate for-profit animal and when they go looking for the "human story" it almost always devolves into a heartless, insincere display of graphic details and private grief.

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Harper_is_Bush

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Sun Jan-08-06 07:44 PM
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3. Go here for CNN contact info to tell them what you think:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=72438&mesg_id=72438

IMO, CNN has been absolutely heartless in thier coverage of this.

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