Do the networks have a responsibility to cover events in Egypt?
I just checked my local tv stations and none of the networks is covering the historic events unfolding in Egypt. I was able to turn to CNN and they are of course all over the story. But for folks without cable do the networks have a responsibility to cover important events such as these?
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The networks have a responsibility to make a profit. I don’t expect anything from them except to do that – and I’m rarely disappointed in the sensationalist tactics they resort to in news reporting to do just that.
I’m excited about and trust in the citizen journalist movement – social networking that has allowed, partially, for the free spreading of information that may have been part of the catalyst for the current movements in northern Africa.
No. They aren’t state run media. And even if they were, who knows what their priorities would be?
However, networks are generally responsive to customers. If they see they could get a lot more customers by televising the events in Egypt, they’d be all over it like a fly on shit.
No, they are covering it on their news programs, and that is all that the market demands.
ABC interrupted regular broadcasting about an hour ago to report on this. Maybe you missed it?
I guess some managers of local tv stations might have problems finding Egypt on the map. And perhaps don’t see the connection and why this fundamentally matters to the US as well. The fall of the Iron Curtain was different to them. I guess every station reported live from the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
yes its what we pay them fore
The networks responsibility is to their advertisers to ensure their revenue stream is uninterrupted and you shouldn’t expect anything of them.
Why would they cover events that scare them?
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