Hyping the stadium non-story
Cory Bergman October 20th, 2006
“I think we blew it,” wrote CBS News correspondent Bob Orr referring to the media circus over the NFL stadium threat, which turned out to be a hoax as expected. “We should stop the breathless, breaking and live coverage updates of a non-event…. Watching [CNN's] coverage, you may have thought al Qaeda was massing at goal posts from The Meadowlands to the Oakland Coliseum ready to storm the fields and strike a blow at another sacred American institution.” Orr’s right, and while CNN wasn’t the only news organization to blame, it was the worst offender. (I saw its coverage from the beginning, for the record). It’s events like these that drive more disgusted TV news viewers to the internet. Case in point: CNN.com is much more levelheaded than its cable news counterpart. (Via Terry Heaton).
10 Comments Add your own
1. Safran | October 20th, 2006 at 6:55 am
This was my first reaction upon hearing the story, as it is to *every* terrorist “threat”: The terrorists do_not_issue_ warnings. There was no warning on September 10th that “We’re going to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon with some planes, so you may want to make other plans tomorrow.” They don’t give you a heads up.
That’s why it’s “terrorism” not “mildly inconvenient-ism.”
2. Dave | October 20th, 2006 at 8:19 am
I didn’t even believe it from the outright and I knew CNN would probably go nuts… so I didn’t even tune in.
They drove me to the internet a long time ago. It’s too late now for them to fix it…
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