Los Angeles, CA—Fired LAPD cop Christopher Dorner was on a
rampage but the TV news coverage was limited to chasing official police
information officers around to tell the story. Frankly that just didn’t cut it.
The police agencies involved could be counted upon to only
release self-serving information and nearly always that information is far less
than candid. Additionally the
information is always meticulously influenced by the political slant of the
persons appointing the police chiefs.
What are the reporters and producers supposed to do? They need to let their least experienced or
capable people chase the worthless public information officers. The real reporters and producers need to
scour public records and find people to interview that could shed important
light on the story. Litigation records of
the players involved would have revealed lots of names that deserve follow up
interviews. They could have broadcast a much better and in depth profile of Christopher Dorner but did not.
When the standoff at the Big Bear area cabin was in progress TV news showed
stale video and the anchors began a redundant line of babble throwing out those
overused terms of inane police jargon.
Rather than summon experts to interview that could intelligently explain
the probable efforts at hostage negotiation and SWAT tactics the news directors
chose to let their anchors look really ignorant and downright foolish.
The use by police of tear gas and volatile CS gas and the resulting
fire was easily predictable. Did the
officers who were using the gas releasing devices anticipate the fire? The answer of course is yes! But the fire was a surprise to the news
anchors and they did not have a clue that the fire was intentional except after
later reviewing captured police scanner traffic.
Was setting fire to the cabin justifiable under the
circumstances? The answer would be yes
as long as there is no reason to believe that there was an innocent hostage in
the cabin. Remember the raiding cops
were under fire and since Dorner refused commands to surrender and that did not
end his resistance. Setting fire to the
cabin with CS canisters was reasonable and justifiable to end the deadly
barricade situation.
There was only one reasonable thing to do with our TV
screens and that was to turn down the ridicules anchor chatter and wait out the
siege. In recent years TV news has deteriorated at every
level. Viewers have become news refugees
seeking their information elsewhere particularly on the Internet. TV news personalities are not an acceptable
replacement for real news. They are exactly
what’s wrong with today’s TV news!
Live TV news to breaking events has never been so pathetic in a major TV market.
Live TV news to breaking events has never been so pathetic in a major TV market.
Gangs of Los Angeles?
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