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Half-Assed Media Speculation About the Batman Shooter: Do You Trust the Media to Report Tragedy?

Fef 2012/07/20 19:00:00
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The news media loves a tragedy. People tune in to watch. Television news, in particular, benefits from its live coverage instead of its in-depth, thoughtful analysis. The TV news only has to show pictures or a live feed of a crime scene to attract millions of viewers. The written media criticizes mass media for its "half-assed reporting." What do you think?


REASON.COM reports:
Undeterred by how wrong they got the Columbine shootings 13 years ago, or how disgustingly politicized they turned Jared Loughner's 2011 rampage, the humans who work for and talk with journalistic outlets are again rushing to speculative judgment about Jim Holmes, the suspected Batman murderer in Aurora, Colorado.
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  • \V/ Liberty... 2012/07/22 19:10:50
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  • Reggie☮ 2012/07/20 19:12:50
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Reggie☮
    +7
    We don't get the true facts we get what they give us period!
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  • Soundstorm Reggie☮ 2012/07/21 01:20:06
    Soundstorm
    +2
    We often get whatever pops into their fevered imaginations at a given moment.
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  • Reggie☮ Soundstorm 2012/07/22 00:00:45
    Reggie☮
    +2
    I would say you are correct.
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  • ♒ßεllεchεvεllε®♒ 2012/07/20 19:11:54
    No, I don't trust the media.
    ♒ßεllεchεvεllε®♒
    +8
    No I do not. They will spin any story in any direction in order to create panic, chaos, and disorder. The punks.
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  • LisaSmith 2012/07/20 19:10:51
    No, I don't trust the media.
    LisaSmith
    +8
    They outright lied in the Zimmerman case so no I don't trust them at all.
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  • Debowman LisaSmith 2012/07/20 19:30:57
    Debowman
    +2
    So true, have you seen the cuts on his head??
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  • Grandpa 2012/07/20 19:09:36
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Grandpa
    +3
    And you wonder why the papers are going broke
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  • Donald Eric Kesler 2012/07/20 19:06:12
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Donald Eric Kesler
    +4
    Please. Let's not call Jim Holmes the Batman murderer. Let's call him Jim Holmes.
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  • Andy Fl... Donald ... 2012/07/20 20:11:41
    Andy Fletcher
    +1
    This should be the top comment of this thread. I regret I can rave you only once.
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  • Donald ... Andy Fl... 2012/07/21 16:51:38
    Donald Eric Kesler
    +1
    I am feeling down due to the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado.

    A dozen people are dead. Scores more are injured. Lives have been irrevocably altered. My heart goes out to them.

    I feel a strange connection to this tragedy. Batman is important to me. I know that the character is a work of fiction, but it is still something that I care about and am passionate about. Someone took something that should have served as a source of inspiration and escapism, and turned it into something ugly.

    As another fan has observed, if Batman stands for anything at all, it is that out of tragedy can come greatness. Let’s be greater.
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  • Andy Fl... Donald ... 2012/07/21 19:18:01
    Andy Fletcher
    +1
    For me, turning it into any sort of characiture is wrong. It's a buzz phrase and disrespects and devalues the gravity of the situation.
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  • shadow76 Donald ... 2012/07/20 21:19:23
    shadow76
    +1
    Let's just call him Killer #9 don't give him name recognition, at least call him james not jim.
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  • Lena 2012/07/20 19:06:04
    Yes, I trust the media in breaking news reporting.
    Lena
    +1
    They might exaggerate a bit at times, but in the end they will report what they need to.
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  • Debowman Lena 2012/07/20 19:31:19
    Debowman
    LOL you mean they will report what they want you to know.
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  • AdriHead 2012/07/20 19:02:07
    Yes, I trust the media in breaking news reporting.
    AdriHead
    +1
    to a certain extent... they may get some facts wrong from time to time in order to "deliver the news first"... but they always correct themselves and try the best they can to give you the most information about a breaking news story.
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  • HOMBRE 2012/07/20 18:54:07
    No, I don't trust the media.
    HOMBRE
    +5
    If it was a muslim the story would have been over before starting.Funny how they slobber over their self to say tea party and time after time they been wrong. Now a have ass attempt to apologies .People on their way to work before the apology was given so they still dont know they were slimmed with a lie
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  • Soundstorm HOMBRE 2012/07/21 00:48:00
    Soundstorm
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    A reporter with ABC already jumped the gun by suggesting that a 'Jim Holmes' from a Tea Party web site may have been the shooter. In a fair and balanced media environment Brian Ross would be SO fired today.
    http://www.americanthinker.co...
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  • HOMBRE Soundstorm 2012/07/21 01:10:31
    HOMBRE
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    I hear you. I am hoping the noise we make about it carries weight and they drop him
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  • Chris- Demon of the PHAET 2012/07/20 18:42:08
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Chris- Demon of the PHAET
    +5
    I was watching GMA this morning and all I heard "it could have been..." or "maybe it was...". It soon became clear the whole show was going to be a guessing game so I shut it off. Waste of time and a public dis-service. :-(
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  • Kimmel 2012/07/20 18:40:21
  • BritPunk Kimmel 2012/07/20 19:56:05
    BritPunk
    +1
    Try the BBC. Every political party claims the Beeb is biased against them!!
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  • Soundstorm Kimmel 2012/07/21 00:41:16
    Soundstorm
    +1
    Unfortunately BS is what is taught in schools of journalism.
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  • Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody 2012/07/20 18:38:30
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Dwight-AFCL>dogsbody
    +4
    trust them to spin it into ratings gold.
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  • The Sane One 2012/07/20 18:32:20
    No, I don't trust the media.
    The Sane One
    +4
    The media wants sensationalism, not truth.

    Sensationalism means their ratings grow-- which means more money for the networks.

    TRUTH, however, means a DROP in ratings.

    Follow the $$$$$$.
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  • WankerBait 2012/07/20 18:31:15
    No, I don't trust the media.
    WankerBait
    +3
    With corporate media always striving to scoop the competition and wanting to be 1st to report, there's nothing but blog-rumor level reporting in the hours following such tragedies...
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  • Chris D 2012/07/20 18:29:43
    Yes, I trust the media in breaking news reporting.
    Chris D
    News Organizations make mistakes but correct them....ABC said: Editor’s Note: An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.
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  • K-ZOOMI... Chris D 2012/07/20 18:49:24
    K-ZOOMI-----0
    WOW!
    I believe the lawyer apologized!
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  • Schläue~© Chris D 2012/07/20 18:56:05
    Schläue~©
    +2
    Sorry, but putting people's lives in danger in the almighty quest to pin the political tail on the donkey doesn't qualify as a 'mistake'.
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  • Debowman Chris D 2012/07/20 19:33:03
    Debowman
    +1
    Actually what they wanted they got, after that comment, it hit the net it was a tea party person, so now the liberals will run with that and no matter what truth comes out, Liberals don't operate on truth so to them it's now a fact.
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  • teigan Chris D 2012/07/20 23:00:22
    teigan
    You are an imcompetent journalist if you don't vet it before it's broadcasted. So what do you suppose made this journalist look up Tea Party members? He's biased, that's why. He wanted to pin it on them. Glad this worthless journalist got caught with his head up his ass, now his viewers at least know that he incompetent.
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  • reaper 2012/07/20 18:29:35 (edited)
    No, I don't trust the media.
    reaper
    +3
    to bad some other people also came to some other strange conclusion. Rep. Louie Gohmert Suggests Aurora Theater Shooting Result Of ‘Ongoing Attacks On Judeo-Christan Beliefs’

    http://www.usnews.com/news/ar...
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  • The San... reaper 2012/07/20 18:34:52
    The Sane One
    +3
    implied facepalm
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  • kevracer 2012/07/20 18:28:41
    Yes, I trust the media in breaking news reporting.
    kevracer
    +3
    you're painting with a pretty broad brush

    there was no rush to judgement in the two shuttle tragedies and the media was fairly accurate follwing 9/11
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  • Debowman kevracer 2012/07/20 19:33:43
    Debowman
    nope they were not. that was all colored by what the Gov't wanted reported.
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  • Schläue~© 2012/07/20 18:28:24
    No, I don't trust the media.
    Schläue~©
    +3
    ABC is bucking to out-do NBC/MSLSD as the stankiest scum in the pond.
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  • K-ZOOMI-----0 2012/07/20 18:27:50
    No, I don't trust the media.
    K-ZOOMI-----0
    +3
    Typical Liberal Media.
    Making assumptions before ANY FACTS are gathered.
    This is why I never watch MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS.
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