Information from the Mass Media

[Beth Sweet]

You say that we need to take the time to analyze the situation. If newscasters took the time to dig into every story to get to the "why" before airing it, they'd be out of business in a month. #1 rule of broadcast journalism: Get it out before your competitor. Another channel tells you about it first, and then you talk about it, someone who is channel switching says "oh, it's just that story again" and switches the channel before you get to talk about the analysis. There isn't time to figure out the why in news media. If you want the why, you have to go research it yourself, a television news show is there to give you whatever parts of the story can be figured out quickly. Typically, first-hand encounters of the situation are the quickest and most accurate way to recount the occurences.