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For me, this article reminded me of what happened after 9/11. During the whole united-we-stand, patriotic messages, very little attention was paid to the persons responsible, except that it might be a terrorist group. When it came out that it was Al Qaeda, we then found out that people connected to the group had been allowed to take planes in and out of the U.S. following 9/11. There was such a focus on America and its survivors that we might have lost the potential for justice. While the intentions of news outlets may have been to unite the country, they failed to ask the questions and pursue the stories that might have solved important problems. When we lose the greater perspective of world events, or national events, we lose the integrity of the media and even our country as well.
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Great points. But I feel your intelligent ideas and reasonings, although, smart, is asking too much of the public, of the media. In the heat of the moment people seek the easy, graspable routes of action and solutions, the ones that make money, the ones that get viewers...
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