{"id":1860,"date":"2010-05-08T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2010-05-08T15:42:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:42:07","slug":"meanwhile_in_nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, In Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Meanwhile, in Nashville’ is the headlline of an editorial posted at Investors.com<\/a> yesterday.  The editorial deals with the way the major news stories are being dealt with by the mainstream media.  <\/p>\n

The editorial points out:<\/p>\n

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“It’s getting obvious that that’s the pattern: A parallel example is in the media coverage of combat deaths in Afghanistan. During the Bush years, the media reported deaths of soldiers daily because it advanced an anti-war agenda. With President Obama now at the helm, they’ve dropped coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A look at the Los Angeles Times’ oil spill coverage, for one, shows birds featured daily in its blog and paper while the 11 oil platform workers have barely registered. On the blog, the news of the deaths wasn’t acknowledged until May 5, eight days after the workers’ employer identified them in a memorial Web site.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Is this important? Yes. Regardless of the worries about the birds, the workers’ deaths are more tragic and have more implications for society. But as people, they hardly serve an agenda.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While the news was focused on the birds impacted by the oil spill, Nashville, Tennessee, suffered its worst flood in 500 years.  The death toll is still climbing, and the economic impact will be at least $1.5 billion for the region.  It broke my heart to hear the tale of someone in a canoe being able to paddle across the stage of the Ryman Auditorium at the Grand Ole Opry.  The Associated Press covered the story well, but the major newspapers buried the coverage.  Tennessee must have wondered if it was still part of the United States.<\/p>\n

It is obvious that as a very ‘busy’ society; we don’t always have the time to pay close attention to what is going on around us.  The news–24-hour news cycle, newspapers, radio, television, internet–should be able to help us with that.  However, it is the responsibility of journalism to report news.  One of the reasons for the explosion of the internet blogs is that the regular news outlets have traded news for manipulation of the public.  A picture of an oil-soaked bird is much more friendly to their cause than a flood in Tennessee or the deaths that occurred when the oil rig exploded.  All are important; it would be nice if all of these things received coverage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Meanwhile, in Nashville’ is the headlline of an editorial posted at Investors.com yesterday.  The editorial deals with the way the major news stories are being dealt with by the mainstream media.  The editorial points out: “It’s getting obvious that that’s the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}