Sensational
Just walked by the television where Fox News decided to interrupt their coverage of the trial, you know which one don’t you, with live coverage of the rally in Beirut. Like many of you, I believe that they, and their kindred "news" sources, are wrong to cover the trial so much.
The unfolding of events in Lebanon should have our attention and our support. More lives are touched by those events than any celebrity trial, despite its sensationalist coverage, will ever touch. The world at large, all its inhabitants, is impacted by the spread of liberty and self-determination. Yet, a people demanding that the son of a tyrant, a tyrant himself, leave and that a government that has supported his presence ceases to, receives only secondary coverage.
Sissy Willis, Capt. Ed, Publius Pundit, and many other bloggers have stepped up to delivering news that serves the truth, spreads the message of support for those involved in the struggle and sheds appropriate meaning to the events of our lives. When experts debate who and what a journalist is, they would be well served to consider more than the professional attributes of journalism. As we’ve seen almost daily, sensationalism supplants significance in our 24-hour news culture.
Previous coverage here, here and throughout the Little Red Blog.
