Baron Scicluna
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Yep, Happy Mission Accomplished Day.
And before the mods' heads explode, I'll keep this to a journalistic take:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513
Now, first, I understand why the landing was covered. Something goes wrong during it, and there's a historically major story.
But reading that story just now, and seeing how horribly the media covered the Boston bombing, shows that, in general, the media haven't learned their lesson about reporting news rather than just acting as stenographers. Very few at the time questioned the need for the plane landing, nor the taxpayer dollars spent on it, nor how horrible the timing of it was with tens of thousands of troops still in harm's way.
And I'd hate to see how it would have been covered if Twitter were around back then.
And before the mods' heads explode, I'll keep this to a journalistic take:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513
Now, first, I understand why the landing was covered. Something goes wrong during it, and there's a historically major story.
But reading that story just now, and seeing how horribly the media covered the Boston bombing, shows that, in general, the media haven't learned their lesson about reporting news rather than just acting as stenographers. Very few at the time questioned the need for the plane landing, nor the taxpayer dollars spent on it, nor how horrible the timing of it was with tens of thousands of troops still in harm's way.
And I'd hate to see how it would have been covered if Twitter were around back then.
