Comments on: The media vultures arrive after the dead have been carted away. http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16060 Erich Vieth Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:02:28 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16060 Here are the follow-up stories regarding the shooting. Here's the local version <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/87E6BB40B0C5C11F862573EA0018F2C7?OpenDocument" target="_blank">"Kirkwood starts long road to recovery" </a> and here's <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23081397/ " target="_blank">the national version</a> Here are the follow-up stories regarding the shooting. Here’s the local version “Kirkwood starts long road to recovery”  and here’s the national version

]]> By: Edgar Montrose http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16058 Edgar Montrose Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:40:06 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16058 Did anyone try to link the shootings to Al Qaeda? On a serious note, my sympathies to the victims and their loved ones. And I can somewhat understand the local news emphasis on an event so close to home. Though I now live half a continent away from St. Louis, this story hits me just a little harder than most because I grew up there. Did anyone try to link the shootings to Al Qaeda?

On a serious note, my sympathies to the victims and their loved ones. And I can somewhat understand the local news emphasis on an event so close to home. Though I now live half a continent away from St. Louis, this story hits me just a little harder than most because I grew up there.

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16056 Erich Vieth Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:57:18 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16056 Ooops. I cut it off. I'm waiting for that knock on the door from Homeland Security. Ooops. I cut it off. I’m waiting for that knock on the door from Homeland Security.

]]> By: Ben http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16055 Ben Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:58:14 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16055 Make sure you get a shot of the flag too... Make sure you get a shot of the flag too…

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16053 Erich Vieth Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:26:53 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16053 Ben, you're onto something. "We interrupt this show for a breaking report: a man is riding his bicycle down the street! More tonight at 10" Ben, you’re onto something. “We interrupt this show for a breaking report: a man is riding his bicycle down the street! More tonight at 10″

]]> By: Ben http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16052 Ben Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:20:35 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16052 Maybe they were just there to get a gander at you? Maybe they were just there to get a gander at you?

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/02/08/the-media-vultures-arrive-after-the-dead-have-been-carted-away/#comment-16051 Dan Klarmann Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:18:52 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2150#comment-16051 I was very annoyed last night when one of the local stations pre-empted the last half of a prime time drama to show us long distance shots of the exterior of where the crime had occurred an hour before, and to speculate about what might have happened, who might have been involved, and to repeat the AP wire information as it became available. KMOV-CBS was this culprit. It was less bothersome to me that another local station pre-empted a longer segment of its network game show schedule to give slightly earlier continuous coverage with slightly less distanced information. KSDK-NBC had this longer live coverage of "we don't know, but here we are". It is not as if there was an ongoing menace or situation. It alway irritates me the way these stations will interrupt a few minutes of a show to let us know that the storms at the fringes of the viewing area that they have been periodically yammering on about, have moved away. That information is usually continuously presented with a graphic taking up a tenth of the screen plus a banner running along the bottom, anyway. How is the public better served by these long and invasive interruptions than by the sort of short plugs they usually use to urge us to tune in at 9 or 10, as they do when the shooting involves residents in lower rent parts of our metropolitan area? Maybe I should stop watching TV, again. I was very annoyed last night when one of the local stations pre-empted the last half of a prime time drama to show us long distance shots of the exterior of where the crime had occurred an hour before, and to speculate about what might have happened, who might have been involved, and to repeat the AP wire information as it became available. KMOV-CBS was this culprit.

It was less bothersome to me that another local station pre-empted a longer segment of its network game show schedule to give slightly earlier continuous coverage with slightly less distanced information. KSDK-NBC had this longer live coverage of “we don’t know, but here we are”.

It is not as if there was an ongoing menace or situation.

It alway irritates me the way these stations will interrupt a few minutes of a show to let us know that the storms at the fringes of the viewing area that they have been periodically yammering on about, have moved away. That information is usually continuously presented with a graphic taking up a tenth of the screen plus a banner running along the bottom, anyway.

How is the public better served by these long and invasive interruptions than by the sort of short plugs they usually use to urge us to tune in at 9 or 10, as they do when the shooting involves residents in lower rent parts of our metropolitan area?

Maybe I should stop watching TV, again.

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