DISQUS

Truthteller · 2 years ago

Of course. Of course the media will go into a frenzy on such stories.  That's what they do.

Then there are bloggers who will use thisdouble tragedy to bash those they hate, like what we saw over on the PeakDems blog, where the victims were being blamed for their own murders. 

I suppose all of this is just human nature......unfortunately.

An editor · 2 years ago

Not so new The Denver dailies have been experts at saturation coverage for 20 years, although Web coverage is a new dimension, of course.

The unexamined question, of course, is how many people actually read all that stuff?

Rowena Alegria · 2 years ago

the $64,000 question Who reads all that?  My guess is a small but vocal minority.  And a great many people of the folks involved -- which in this case is at least the 7,000 who were leaving the church on Sunday -- looking for quotes/photos of people they know.

As for being experts for 20 years, the local media has indeed been covering big stories for years now, but the point I was trying to make and perhaps did not was that local journalists now have it down to a science.  There are protocals, there are outlines, there are procedures that mobilize coverage to a degree that only comes with what has at this point been far too much practice.

Perhaps it's akin to a MASH unit that gets assembled in a desert with a bunch of citizen soldiers who hardly know each other but after being overrun by wounded a few times, they establish a working relationship that allows them to do the job far more efficiently and without near the chaos.  And with far less emotion.  For journalists, too, I suppose, it's a means of survival.  If you take every interview with a murdered child's mother to heart, how would you get up and go to work everyday?

Truthteller · 2 years ago

That's a good question. But apparently some numbers of people are reading something in the blogs.  Example:  They got so many negative complaints about the blaming the victims comment over on peakdems.org by Zappatero that they shut down the comment function. 

It was kind of amusing that they did so right after a poster reminded them of the quote by DEMOCRAT President Truman that, "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." 

But that aside, it does illustrate an interesting point - that there are a lot of people out there in the more "mainstream" media who got very used to not being questioned or criticized.  I think that one reason that the more traditional media is seeing a falloff of readers/listeners in the face of blogging and the internet is that the more traditional media lacks any meaningful opportunity for feedback from their consumers/target audience.  So they lose touch.  They get up in their own little "ivory tower."  And that increases them being out of touch....so they lose more customers.....and it spirals downwards.  I suppose that is human nature, too.....to want to be able to criticize others, but not suffer criticism yourself, but if the "mainstream" media wants to continue to be mainstream, they're going to have to be more responsive to their customers.

Andrew Oh-Willeke · 2 years ago

David Harsanyi deserves kudos for while I often don't agree with him, his take on this particular tragedy was spot on:

There aren't always "answers." There isn't always something that can be done. Some things just are.

And clearly, though it might be difficult for some to comprehend, not everything is about politics or religion.

It is easy to provoke readers, and Harsanyi certainly knows how to provoke if he wants to, but it takes character to be responsible and acknowledge that not every tragedy proves a point.

chasclifton · 2 years ago

Saturated I was sort of glad for the snowstorm, actually, because it meant that KRDO-Ch. 13 had to stop its saturation coverage of the New Life Church shootings, with the same video over and over and over and over, interrupting all their other program to tell what they had were about to broadcast, what they had just broadcast, or that they were about to re-broadcast it again.

The joy of print is that you can turn the page. The joy of the Web is that you can surf somewhere else. But if there is another program on that channel that you would rather see, you might be out of luck.

moon · 2 years ago

All Killed: Arvada Faith Chapel/ New Life Springs had YWAM Connection Number of oddities in the recent spate of killings in CO and NE.

All shot were working w/ YWAM in some form

http://rinf.com/alt-...

Both Churches Leased Property to YWAM on their Campuses.

YWAM has some strange connections for a purely evangelic service organization:

http://www.blacklist...

YWAM Founders Son Produced "Path to 9/11 Film"

http://www.thenation...

The Gunman was wearing a trench coat like Trench coat mafia of Columbine fame.

"Later, at New Life Church, a gunman wearing a trench coat and carrying a high-powered rifle opened fire in the parking lot and later walked into the church as a service was letting out."

http://www.huffingto...

Killer's Brother goes to ORU, Ted Haggards old school and that school is now under under Senate investigation for financial abuse, and also has had rumored CIA connections that can be googled on the web.

Even stranger, and purely by coincidence President Bush was in Omaha hours before the mall murders, and The Dept. of Homeland Security had recently visited that very mall to query them about their security procedures:

http://www.truthnews...

Of course this is only feeding conspiracy nuts and their far fetched theories. mm

moon · 2 years ago

OOPS Wrong YWAM link, here it is Shows the YWAM connection between all slayed, from YWAM itself.

http://www.ywam.org/...