Reporting on the reporters
I've never been a big fan of the type of story that appeared in today's Deseret Morning News, headlined "Disappearance draws national media." It smacks of an unsophisticated "Hey, look! We're somebody!" attitude.
This particular story had some other curious quirks. First, a representative of ABC's "Good Morning America" said she was in Utah "to help find Lori [Hacking]." I'm not sure what that means, and the TV program does not discuss its own role in "helping" the search in its story, "Husband Considered a 'Person of Interest.'" Second, the story quoted a representative of Fox News Channel who compared the Lori Hacking disappearance to the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart, who was later found. The article then states:
So what we have is a bunch of journalists roaming around Salt Lake City saying they want to help find a missing woman while interviewing each other about all kinds of wild conjecture and crazy comparisons. Tell me again just what the drafters of the Constitution were thinking with that "press clause" thing?
This particular story had some other curious quirks. First, a representative of ABC's "Good Morning America" said she was in Utah "to help find Lori [Hacking]." I'm not sure what that means, and the TV program does not discuss its own role in "helping" the search in its story, "Husband Considered a 'Person of Interest.'" Second, the story quoted a representative of Fox News Channel who compared the Lori Hacking disappearance to the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart, who was later found. The article then states:
The Smart story came to such an unbelievable conclusion that some members of the media were now wondering if that could happen again, she said.
So what we have is a bunch of journalists roaming around Salt Lake City saying they want to help find a missing woman while interviewing each other about all kinds of wild conjecture and crazy comparisons. Tell me again just what the drafters of the Constitution were thinking with that "press clause" thing?
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