Comments on: TV Fuels Buffalo News Controversy

By: Link Building

Link Building — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:04:43 +0000

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By: Nicki Mayo

Nicki Mayo — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:19:58 +0000

The City Grill mass shooting has really developed into an extreme journalism case study. I’m glad to see you stepped outside the TV box to touch on the newspaper’s coverage. It’s a multimedia game now. This mass shooting aftermath is rich with chances for TONS of hot topics beyond the TV.

By: MrMuzz

MrMuzz — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:09:54 +0000

Exactly Dan. Having a person on the front page taken away in handcuffs, only to not be involved, had me wondering why nobody made a big deal out of that. That was just plain wrong.

Two other points; why did they have that photo in the Saturday news, he’s found to not be involved, yet we have no description of the real person of interest? That makes no sense to me. The News is great at just ignoring legitimate questions and they did it again here. My opinion is that they were VERY late to this story when it first happened and ever since they have been in a rush to be first rather than a rush to be right.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:04:20 +0000

By my count your article is about 8 paragraphs about how the TV stations “fueled the controversy” and about 14 paragraphs about your opinion on the story the newspaper ran.

And yet your headline is about TV “fueling” something? Shouldn’t a more accurate headline for this post be about your opinion about the News’ decision?

Or are you trying to fuel something?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:42 +0000

I didn’t have any problem with Sunday’s story, although its placement could have been better – local news perhaps.

I have a much bigger problem with putting a photograph of a man in handcuffs along with the bold headline abouyt the shooting, when the story itself contains the likelihood that the charges would be dropped. That picture should have been pulled in my opinion.

By: Tom Dolina

Tom Dolina — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:00:34 +0000

Seeing any kind of print media burned is generally surreal, given the historic context of book burnings and such. However, the television coverage of it did more to illicit guffaws than anythinng else when you see a cheap charchol grill being used.
Without condemning or cordoning what the News did, the article may have been better served as an editorial piece in the context of the larger saga regarding the shootings. Instead it comes off as a grab for relevence in the age where a newspaper is trying to find a voice in the ever more rapid pace of the moidern news-cycle.