Should there be a limit on how much coverage certain types of “Breaking News” receives?

I am thankful to have the ability to turn on the news and hear whats happening around me. But after some time, It seems that all the media frenzy takes over and its less about the news at hand and more about who can find the breaking stories first. I realize the news needs ratings too, but when you turn on the TV, Listen to the radio, and surf the net. It’s all you see/hear.
I think the media should step back, a lot earlier than they do. In the case, of V Tech, let these families grieve in peace. Let the officials investigate. Go back after a respectable length of time and then fill the rest of the world in all the details. Maybe, this very disturbed individual was wanting this to happen, and we are justifying his actions. Am I the only one who feels that way?

How do you like living in the USA with less local news coverage?

Do you remember way back when Bush and Margaret Spellings used that “gay muppet” argument to cut the funding on NPR and PBS?

Well – now how do you like living in a world where all we get to hear about is Anna Nicole and Virginia Tech?
Wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on next door?

Wouldn’t you appreciate public access that is not funded by a mega-church or Rupert Murdoch?

Just curious…

How do I become apart of the media, as far as news coverage is concerned?

The reason I ask this is due in part to the tragic shooting at VA TECH, as well as other incidents, that have occured in the past several years. The reason for this is beacause I am agravated about the happenings concerning gun violence and how it involves the public at large. We as a people need to curb the violence that involves guns in the innappropiate manner, please don’t get me wrong, I am for the right-to-bear-arms. Yet while this law is in place, there are those that are abusing it, we need to focus on those indviduals. The law enforcement community on school campus, need to make security a more high level priority.

Any answers and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Any answers or comments that are innappropiate will be flaged and/or reported.
In addition to people buying guns from the local gun store, we also need to be aware of the illegal guns being brought and sold within the black market. As well as guns being passed off that had been used in crimes, either by a convicted fellon or a small time thug. This is really the arena that we need to pay attention to.

Whats with the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting?

While watching all the different news channels’ coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, i was getting sickened by the way they were talking about what happened. It was almost like they were happy that it happened since nothing big happened in the news for a while. Anyone else sickened by this?

Have you avoided news coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings?

I have. I’ve seen so much craziness in my life that I have no desire to wallow in all the sensational news coverage. I’ve just listened to a few talk shows to hear their spin on things. I heard there was some kind of strange video but thankfully I didn’t see it.

Also, no one at my job has even mentioned it.

What do you think of news coverage of events like the Virginia Tech massacre?

Does anyone notice that the networks and the local stations manage to fill up air time with “coverage” when they really don’t have any information to report, and then say “More details as they become available” when they haven’t reported any details yet? They should just report what they do know, then move on, IMHO.

We had a shooting of a city official here, and the local radio station bragged about having reporters “on the scene” everywhere, at the hospital, city hall, police headquarters, the vicitim’s home, man-on-the-street interviews, etc., but never once in 20 minutes mentioned the condition of the victim or identified the shooter. Talk about a smoke screen!

On the one hand, in our instant communications age, maybe we expect too much. On the other, competing news outlets seem to be hell-bent on pretending that they’re delivering.

What do you think? What information should the news media have had as early as yesterday? What should they have been reporting?

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