One might think the answer to this could be found during the 10 p.m. TV news channel broadcasts. I conducted a survey during the first 15 minutes and here’s what I found:
MSNBC: missing white girl
CNNHN: missing white girl
FNC: missing white girl
CNN and its rebel program directors covered the purportedly at-large London terrorists. I’m not sure why it devoted the first 15 minutes to a London story (it might be a different case if suspects were running around in Philadelphia), but at least it gets points for covering news.
With all due respect to missing white girl, by my count her disappearance affects only the people who knew her before she was lost. Meanwhile, a trade deal which could have a direct impact on the lives of millions of American workers goes largely unnoticed on TV news.
Granted, a trade deal isn’t nearly as sexy as a story as a missing “graduate,” but you’d think a few producers might use some editorial discretion in determining what is most newsworthy.
You’d think wrong.
Speaking of CAFTA, isn’t this a curious story?
Yah,everynight my husband and I would watch the 6:30 news WAITING for the Karl Rove thing to make “the news”. By this time it was old news, but we waited for it to be released on mainstream. Instead, all three of the major networks aired the space shuttle scrub, which was news, but NOT headline before Karl Rove. It’s ridiculous what general society gets fed. And really how stupid they are.