Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Former editor rips media overkill on Jackson coverage

I am not the only former editor who is disgusted with the media overkill on the death on Michael Jackson. Alan Mutter in his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, addresses the topic in an aptly named post- "Jacko-Mania tarnished media credibility":

From a journalistic point of view, there is no conceivable argument that the massive coverage served the public interest.

Thus, Jacko-mania appears to have been a curiously ill-conceived effort among many media outlets to appeal to a public that mostly wasn’t interested.

You can’t build confidence in the press by providing breathless coverage of an overblown event that most people don’t care about.


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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous3:52 AM

    Both the media and the politicians have been ignoring what we, the people, wanted for quite some time now.

    Real solid news is hard to find in print or on the evening news tv screen. Instead they've become like The National Enquirer or Entertainment Tonight. It's a sad fact that you do better if you get online and look around for a few sites that appear to have trustworthy sources and hopefully few mistakes. The Turner Report is good for local Missouri news.

    I miss Walter Cronkite.

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