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Originally Posted by Fredman
Is it exploiting or are they giving us what we want? Would we accept a headline that 12 people were murdered without any other details? I don’t think so.
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I don't think it's a matter of just reporting the news. It's also the volume of news. Especially with cable and the internet. Something big happens and it's front page all over the internet or cable news within minutes, from hundreds of different sources. In the "Good "Ol Days" you would get your news from the Evening News or the afternoon paper. Now you can't turn on, log on or look at any digital device without having every tragic story in your face for hours if not days. Even if it's a statistical rarity, the aggressive manner in which the media reports would lead people to believe some issues are much bigger than they really are.