Lesley Stahl asked: What was the most under-reported story of 2006 and what makes it so important? On the other hand, what do YOU think the most OVER-reported story was?
2006-12-28 08:55:14 · 6 answers · asked by tinomart99 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
All the celebrities reports, like who cares about TomKat baby and their wedding, or K-Fed and Britney Spears divorce and the drama w/ them, or about Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn and Anna Nicole Smith and her mess of a life. Or Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole specifically her drastic weight loss. I think there were more important things going in the world than the life of celebrities-who for the most part just party all the time.
2006-12-28 08:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by Annie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Natalie Holloway chick who disappeared in Aruba. Talk about overkill and overreported.
My question is what makes this girl so special that this event received the amount of coverage it did?
Not to be mean or heartless, but there are young women who go missing all the time and worse yet, there are young women-of-color who go missing and get absolutely no media coverage at all!
So what makes this chick so much more important that we have to hear every miniscule detail of this case on a minute-by-minute basis for like 2 months?
Is she unimportant? No. But is she THAT important?
2006-12-29 06:23:35 · answer #2 · answered by Watchstopper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definately the celebrity coverage. I think there are more magazines/programs reporting about celebrity life than about really important things that affect a great deal of people and our own future (Darfur, AIDS, N. Korea etc, scientific discoveries). But then, there is the people that buy these magazines or watch programs about the life of the rich and famous making it a business by itself.
2006-12-28 10:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by vane1972 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the Celebrity news....who cares what they do, who they marry, and who's baby is who's...its just so retarted that we care so much about peoples lives that we don't even know!
2006-12-28 09:28:02 · answer #4 · answered by Abigail H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Steroids in baseball.
They're entertainers/athletes, not role models.
Total number of people directly affected = dozens.
Total number of headlines = tens of thousands.
2006-12-28 09:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Z 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The mountain climbers..
2006-12-28 09:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by goldengirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋