An airplane has crashed in San Francisco. Three people are dead and a number are in the hospital. This has eaten up all the broadcasting on all the cable "news" stations all day as the anchors breathlessly interview politicians and each other...
More people die daily in local auto accidents than died in this crash and yet it is wall to wall coverage all day? What's wrong with this picture?
...”Meanwhile, in other “news”...
An airplane has crashed in San Francisco. Three people are dead and a number are in the hospital. This has eaten up all the broadcasting on all the cable “news” stations all day as the anchors breathlessly interview politicians and each other...
More people die daily in local auto accidents than died in this crash and yet it is wall to wall coverage all day? What’s wrong with this picture?”...
YES! As tragic as a plane crash is, it is nothing to compare to what is happening in this country which will ultimately cause many deaths from stress and poverty. We do not need to know the Boeing engineering details of the 777. They just need to give pertinent news when they have it..Wall to wall is insane..I went in to the programs I DVR only to find hours of plane crash coverage. I just deleted all of it and figured I would get the important parts of the coverage in the morning. The ambulance chasers like tragedy but the flip side of way too much coverage is that it desensitizes people to the pain and suffering of others over time. In this case, losing a holiday weekend of news which is crucial to America is not a small loss. Having said that, our hearts and prayers should go out to the victims of that terrible crash and we should pray that the cause will be found.