Newtown Residents Excoriate The Media On Facebook
“Cameras just aimed at the door to the funeral home…” Newtowners, and others, vent their frustrations: “Now the curtain needs to close.”
Media vans and trucks in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Dec. 14th.
2. On Monday, the Newtown Bee posted this notice urging restraint in the media:
3. Residents started sharing their stories, some sad, some shocking:
4. “Phone calls from 7am to 11pm…” “Respect the families as they lay their babies to rest…”
5. “I had a person from CBS news lie to me…”
6. “Cameras just aimed at the door to the funeral home…”
7. One resident is recording what he calls “morally gross” conduct by the press:
8. Another says she spoke to the police about it:
9. Others are just angry:
10. A former Bee employee weighs in:
11. “The President came… Now the curtain needs to close…”
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NicoleSmith24 5 months agoAs a former reporter who grew tired of the lifestyle, I see somewhat both sides of the issue, and it is difficult to say for certain what I think about this. I find it interesting the Newtown Bee posted that status, especially because not only were they at the scene along with the other media, but they, too, were talking to those affected. I believe their videos and images, which showed children, were widely circulated (this one: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/198433/how-the-newtown-bee-is-covering-community-school-shooting/attachment/evacuationnewtownsandyhook/) I don’t know what the Bee plans to do to in regards to coverage in the future. At this point, the media does need to back off and let those affected attempt to come to terms with it. It is the respectful thing to do. Once again, however, the same people who now make disparaging remarks about the media are the same people who refreshed web pages for breaking news alerts on Friday and who tuned in to 60/60 and other programs for press conferences and interviews. If the media didn’t acknowledge this tragedy past Friday, they are damned; if they latch on to it and produce frequent stories, they’re damned. What are the media supposed to do? Where is the safe balance? The only word I can think to describe all of this is tragic, and even that doesn’t properly summarize it.
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mathieuge 5 months agoI am from France and we had an entire TV show on monday about the coverage of Newtown by US television. It was really disgusting, journalists only think about doing “stories”. I am a journalist too and the word “story” doesn’t exist in France : our work is only to report facts, we don’t have any equivalent for “story”.
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ALICE OMEGA 5 months ago
uh…”histoire”…(coincidentally enough, it also means “lie.”) also, don’t worry, nobody was going to accuse France of doing anything more than regurgitating facts.
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AdventureNeckbeard 5 months agoLets view the media as one of the problems with this world. This is disgusting.
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