Sad, upset, angry,
scared, and now tired
all describes how East
Tennessee feels concerning
the killings at the Unitarian
Church on Sunday.
Today the question is
when is the line of
dignity and class crossed
in reporting this horror and
are all members of the local
media staying
too long at the well?
With the exception of one, two of
the three (OK Fox is also in there)
local TV news departments
are still featuring the story on their
web pages and in their news casts.
wbir.com
"Church shooting victims were co-authors and close friends"
wate.com
"Man who videotaped Unitarian musical describes shooting"
If you had to rank the
"continuous" coverage
on the story the local
paper would be first and
WATE would be second.
Granted WATE has tried to build an
image as being the go to station
when "hard" news breaks and so far
it has taken them from second in the market to
third.
Still this kind of
reporting is what they do so you have to give
them a half pass, but the local paper
is nothing like Channel 6.
They have turned into a political platform touting
the left (check out their featured AP
story today on the famed apology)...
"House offers apology for slavery"
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
"The resolution, passed by voice vote,
was the work of Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen,
the only white lawmaker to represent
a majority black district.
Cohen faces a formidable
black challenger in a primary face-off next week."
Although the shooting still made above the
fold this kind of story (the apology) featuring
a Democrat is really what they do. SO WHY
have they used their ink to remind victims families, church members
and the rest of the area about the shooting every
morning when they open the paper?
These types of questions, along the fact that
the local TV stations (6 and 10)
are just now LEAVING the scene of the
killings need answers.
What do YOU think?
Post in the comment section
and we will talk about it.
Again the MR thinks the story is
over for the moment. When the
shooter is convicted bring it back
but until then how about showing
some class and some compassion
for your community and move on.
14 comments:
The story is over. WVLT has moved on and only returns when they have an exclusive that reveals new facts.
The paper loves it because it involves gays and the mayor. They also are pushing hard for the gay community to be accepted by other churches and the general citizenry of Knoxville.
The problem is the Sentinel is very transparent and it causes them to loose all of their credibility.
Time to close the book on this one until the trial.
Obviously, the guy had some serious problems, but making it a hate crime is just as insane. Of course our very liberal News Sentinel jumps on that bandwagon! We don't take the paper, it's not worth reading when it's only propaganda and brainwashing. As for the local news channels, sorry, but they all seem the same to us!
The paper is all gay all the time they will never stop writing about this thing!
The Journal is so missed. The Sentinel is a shell of what the Journal use to be.
They did a good job writing what WNOX news talk was saying when the story broke.
Since then all of the TV stations have just killed the paper in coverage all they have left is to push their crazy ideas like this was a crime against gays?
Also they actually ran a story when some gay guy demanded the MAYOR to
take their side? What side did they have, do they go to church, were they shot?
This is stuff the paper eats up and it shows they are just sinking in debt and will to any level to make a dollar.
I read the paper on line and never buy it. It takes me about a minute and then I go over to Drudge for the facts.
Why do you always single out WATE? I work for that station and we were the first on the air with the story and our phones were flooded with calls about how well we did.
We admit we are a news station and we have proven that East Tennessee wants real news and not the fluff WBIR hands out.
Also we are number one at 5, check your ratings!
OK..ENOUGH IS ENOUGH..YES THA SHOOTIN WAS REAL REAL BAD....BUT NOW THA CONTINOUS STORIES THAT THA TV STATIONS ARE DOIN IS WORSE.....I JUST HEARD CHANNEL 10 IS GONNA INTERVIEW THA GUY WHO SOLD THIS NUT THA GUITAR CASE....WHATS NEXT IS 6 GOIN TO BIG LOTS AND INTERVIEW THA PERSON WHO SOLD HIM THA SOCKS HE WAS WEARIN....DAMN LET IT GO...SKUNKS ARE BEIN RUN OVER EVER DAY GO INTERVIEW ONE OF THEM
Lori Tucker has done and is still doing the best of any of the TV anchors in covering this story.
Tonight she talked about all the churches scheduling rememberance services and it runs all the way into September.
Mrs Tucker calms all of this down and you can tell her reports are not only well done but she feels for the church and those who died.
We are lucky to have her here all these years and especially lucky when something this bad happens to have her tell us about it in such a calm manner.
We said no more, and left it for the networks to wallow in, as I believe it should have been. This overzealous sensationalism of these kinds of acts in the press drives more crazies to do these things anyway for their "moment of fame" IMHO.
KNS = Metro Government Express
Walker, on that poll that you did about shooting coverage, why didn't you include a box that said Neither? I didn't get my facts from either of those four places the day of the shooting. You also left out network TV news and local radio.
By the way, I watched Fox News the day of the shooting, and they were getting their updates from WATE and WIVK.
I got all my facts from the net. Drudge had it and then I went to CNN where they had it.
Later I pulled up knoxnews.com and read their coverage which was not bad and their time line had them there very fast.
I never turned to radio because even WNOX newstalk is often out of the loop on Sundays. The last time I even thought of getting any news from radio was on 911 and that was because I wanted to know what was going on here.
WNOX newstalk did a good job that day and so did everyone else.
How do you feel about WBIR going to an interactive 5 o'clock broadcast, moving Live At Five to 4pm and doing away with the show Style?
I saw WBIR announce tonight that they were going to carry the UU Sunday Church service live. They made a point to say it was at the request of the church.
To be invited into both one of the biggest crime stories to ever hit Knoxville AND to be invited to broadcast the first service from the scene of the crime is a big testament to WBIR.
It says the church trusts them and it says it trusts their journalistic
style and attitude.
Trust like that is earned.
No mention if the news paper was invited to photograph the service, but I bet they were not.
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