I am asking this because the news is on at the moment and there is a reporter with a casual blue t-shirt on saying "Oh look, there's been another explosion in the distance" almost like it is a buzz. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong.
2006-08-04 00:40:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
In the news business that say is, "if it bleeds it leads." I think you can figure it out from there.
2006-08-04 00:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Some reporters probably get a kick out of being in the middle of a war zone. Maybe it makes them feel important ... or that they're doing something important.
There is something strange about how reporters seem to "swarm" around tragedy and chaos -- and ultimately, make a career of it -- and ultimately make money from it.
You'd think that reporters are smart and well informed about what they report and speak of. But more often than not, they seem to be pretty ignorant. They seem to know their subject only superficially, for the most part.
Larry King, though not a reporter, seems to relish his ignorance. Other reporters are not that far behind.
When it comes to the situation in the Middle East, reporters are generally conspicuously ignorant. One wonders whether they're just that stupid ... or just afraid to speak out lest they offend certain parties and put their careers in danger.
2006-08-04 00:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by XMAN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably IS a buzz. Anyone is going to get an adrenaline rush under these circumstances. It's only natural. Danger does that. We're meant to get excited and be ready for anything when we're in danger.
I think that if there's any morbid curiousity it's more likely to be on the part of the viewers, not the film crew.
2006-08-04 00:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by Frog Five 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they are there to satisfy the worlds' morbid curiosity, not just ours. But, I guess we should know what is going on around us, especially since we are in the midst of it (or close enough). As for them betting a buzz... I can't see it. They are probably pretty scared and things just roll out of their mouths that might sound a little off when it comes across.
2006-08-04 00:48:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wars,death,destruction seems to attract people like flies round a honeypot! I DO feel that this "issue" between Israel and lebanon is being very selective in its reporting,by all media. By showing the carefully selected areas and its contents,I feel this is designed as emotional blackmail.
2006-08-04 01:12:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i ask your self how lots of the righties who're feigning outrage over the Rosen tale could say word one if he worked for Fox. My wager is the silence could be defining. newshounds are no longer above the regulation and the 1st exchange does not provide them a bypass for each thing they do. If a protection lawyer questions his shopper on the witness stand in court docket and that defendant lies, that may no longer assumed to be the fault of the lawyer. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that if the lawyer instructed his shopper to lie then that's subornation if perjury, and the lawyer can flow to penal complex for that. Likewise that's no longer a criminal offense to post categorized cloth. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that if the journalist actively inspired somebody else to acquire categorized cloth and convey it lower back to him so he can print it, then that's a different be counted. a minimum of that's the argument the DoJ is making. in spite of in case you settle with that criminal thought or no longer, it continues to be a pertinent area of this tale yet one that so some distance no person on the superb has stated.
2016-10-01 11:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just opinion, but I think they stopped reporting the news a long time ago, now they want to create the news.
2006-08-04 05:18:00 · answer #7 · answered by rosi l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morbid curiousity. They have no sense, being there.
Remember what happened to our AP reporters back in the '80's?
Terry Anderson, John MacCarthy, among others.
2006-08-04 01:07:58 · answer #8 · answered by Professor Chaos386 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing to do is ask those reporters themselves. As for the T-shirt you mention-maybe it is from a Balkan war.
2006-08-04 00:49:41 · answer #9 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard CNN pays an extra $300 per diem for similar deployment.
What's a man -or woman- to do.
Each dollar is a step closer to early retirement.
Mmmmmmmm...
...barring a "friendly fire" incident, that is.
Never can tell about those.
2006-08-04 00:48:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
reporting the news is their job, unforturly many of them turn news reporting into giving their opinions on whats happening instead of reporting the news
2006-08-04 00:48:56 · answer #11 · answered by sealss3006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋