The news media really needs to show some restraint in order to prevent creating copy cat occurrences to crimes & disgusting behavior. From the first News of a plane hijacking and the following epidemic, I realized the News media gave step by step, "How To" instruction. Remember the Ice Cream licker? That has been repeated. And now . . https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/twi...nd-spit-it-back-into-container-185038920.html Twitter rages at 'disgusting' Walmart customer who gargled with Listerine and spit it back into container Similar to others, she demonstrates she bought it but is selling a behavior towards fame. Hero, Anti Hero does not matter. This is not to propose laws corralling the "press". It is to propose the "press" maintain better standards regarding News worthiness. I mean they cover a High Speed chase for hours on interrupted TV programming. Yet never offer a follow up some months later of Remember This High Speed Chase, The Driver has been sentenced to . . . . to witness standards of Journalism in today's News media. Moi No Uncle Walter (Cronkite) today. Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
Got To Make NEWS of her being locked up like the high speed chase. Responsible journalism would tell us of the disposition of the driver even some months later. So What if she is locked up. If no body knows . . . .
Turn off Fox News, which seems to really love car chases, and puts one on the screen during the daytime every chance they get. For that matter, turn off you television and stay away from clickbait blogs of any sort. The world will start to get normal again. REgarding the Fox obsession with car chases and the audience it attracts; nobody cares who the perp is, what they did, or even where they are. Just so long as the news models get a few minutes of free time filled with a chase scene. Any screenwriter could have told them that. And the Fox audience goes for empty spectacle like this. I recall walking into a fast food store in southern Virginia at lunch time, and watching practically everyone in the store riveted to Fox “News” as it presented yet another car chase. No one there could tell you what the story was about. But they all stared at the screen like zombies. I made the mistake of asking what everyone was staring at. The response I got was “did you see that!” “See what?”, I asked, and got blank stares. Why anyone in southern Virginia would be interested in a local car chase in Los Angeles was beyond me. Who was the alleged perpetrator. What was he/she suspected of doing? Why was there a car chase? What was the outcome? No one seemed to know. But they were vaguely hostile when someone asked these obvious questions. It seemed the only reason that this chase was on the air was because the local police had a helicopter and a local TV news feed. And they all stared, like rubberneckers at a car crash. So, if you want to know why television “news” and blogs make a spectacle of this, it’s because it sells. And a car chase is easier and cheaper than journalism, every day. And the lowbrow audience stares blankly, while the men behind the curtain steal their future. Right wing media has always led the procession downward to this sort of trash as a substitute for journalism. Donald Trump knows that better than anyone. All he did was watch Fox for year, listen to some talk radio and watch the blogs,and he knew exactly what his target audience would respond to, right down to the code words. All he had to do was distill it and feed it right back to them.
There’s on two or three times a week on Fox during the day, sandwiched between cat in tree stories and right wing spin, vacuous “happy talk” (which is an industry term for the phony banter between presenters that use up time that they would otherwise have to work to fill with actual news), and celebrity tabloid stuff.
Haven't seen any of that, except possibly "Fox and Friends, which I do not watch. No car chases or cat in tree stories. You can get transcripts of all their programs. Why don't you provide a couple?
I mistrust the media. For all I know, everything in the media could be fake. The one thing that I do tend to believe is the hate. I don't believe that anyone is faking their hatred for President Trump and his supporters. I am grateful to President Trump for his ability to trigger the enemies among us to reveal themselves, and I trust President Trump to stand between us and them.
More than 10-15 years ago I saw one. Guy was doing 100+ mph in a Dodge Caliber. He went on a dirt road til it ended. Then got out and started pacing, obviously disturbed. When he pulled a gun from his pocket, Shep started saying 'this is bad, cut the feed.' But the feed stayed on. He said it several more times, and was yelling by the time the guy had the gun to his own head. Then he shot himself and it went to commercial. First thing after commercials was an apology for showing it.
