media coverage in newtown, ct

chadwick

if i were a parent of a kid whom survived this, i thik i'd become the dad that didn't fuck around. i'd wanna protect my child(ren). in doing so i'd love to grab ahold of a camera and toss the bastard down the street.
calmly get my family into our car and be on our way. that is if they were stalking us outside our home or some shit.

seriously though... i can't wait to see a dad grab a camera and a reporter and shake em up a bit out of princible. news reporters get fucking old especially during events like this. i understand we need some reporting but god damn it seems as if it can be a fucking feeding frenzy though too.

shove a camera in a kids face askin questions; expect to get jacked upside the fuckin head... rule number 1

dimitrispearljam

so bad how media treat people..
they saying they doing their job...they could do it with more respect tho

chadwick

dimitrispearljam wrote:

so bad how media treat people..
they saying they doing their job...they could do it with more respect tho

yes... like how about let the town's people heal. load the fuck up & get out... the story has already been reported.

dimitrispearljam

chadwick wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

so bad how media treat people..
they saying they doing their job...they could do it with more respect tho

yes... like how about let the town's people heal. load the fuck up & get out... the story has already been reported.

actually,im getting angry of how they making the profiles of the killer..
the first days they attack him,and then try to make him look as victim too

norm

Newtown, Connecticut continued to endure a crush of reporters on Tuesday, as its residents struggled with the aftermath of Friday's shooting. Many have expressed that they want the media to leave — and some journalists, it seems, feel the same way.

Twenty-six victims — including twenty children — were shot and killed in a horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. The gunman also killed his mother before killing himself. The country watched with horror as the story broke and developed on Friday.

The tragic event has dominated news coverage, and brought scores of reporters to Newtown. Some residents have told reporters that the media attention is simply too much right now. Poynter compiled some of their reactions in a piece on Tuesday.

"Please tell them to just ease up," Teri Brunelli, a Newtown store owner, told reporter Adrienne LaFrance. "It happened and we're going through it. Just let it be for now."

The BBC's Jonny Dymond reported being told, "I know four or five of the families who lost kids and it's too much for them, with all the media here. What do you all want?"

Like some journalists, Dymond agreed with residents. "I have covered stories for 15 years in the field, some of the biggest, and have never seen anything like this, nor felt so uncomfortable about being part of it," he wrote, lamenting the "exceptionally heavy" media presence in Newtown. "After a while, you have to wonder what more there is to say," Dymond added.

Other members of the media have acknowledged the difficulty of covering the shooting, on a personal level, as well. CNN's Don Lemon reported from Newtown during Sunday night's vigil, where President Obama spoke. "I know it's my job but I hope it's ok to say I'm dreading this drive from hotel to Newtown to anchor on #CNN," Lemon tweeted. "Overwhelming sadness."

In interviews with the New York Times, CNN's Wolf Blitzer and "Good Morning America" executive producer Tom Cibrowski spoke out about the conflicts presented by such a tragic story.

The media has already come under much scrutiny for its reporting of the story. Television reporters were hotly criticized for interviewing eyewitnesses, many of whom were children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, right after the trauma of that morning.

Some, including Anderson Cooper, have refused to cross certain lines in their coverage. "In answer to your tweets, no, Of course i will not be interviewing children from the school," the CNN host tweeted on Friday. "I do not think that is appropriate at this time."
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polaris_x

the media is but a reflection of us ...

and therein lies who the real culprit is in this tragedy ... the people ... and their way of life ...

comebackgirl

The town and these families need space to heal. The story has been told. After a while they are just telling the same story over and over again from different angels and it starts to feel more like a movie than something that is happening to real families and real little kids. Some of the families may want to give interviews and share stories about their child as part of their healing; it's important that it be their choice and not something they're cajoled into doing. I respect the reporters that don't use the shooter's name or flash his picture over and over again; don't let him have the spotlight here. The professional part of me wants a better understanding of the factors that influenced the shooter so I have a better understanding of factors that might influence a risk assessment, but the human side of me wants any focus on him to be completely dropped.

JC29856

great comment..

"Journalists should be reporters not voyeurs," wrote another.

JimmyV

polaris_x wrote:

the media is but a reflection of us ...

and therein lies who the real culprit is in this tragedy ... the people ... and their way of life ...

Sad but true.