In comparing the different broadcasts, of cable and network news on the sniper coverage, I found dramatic differences. For starters, I cable news has a major advantage. They have twenty-four hours a day to cover news. They have no other TV shows or programs they need to show. They have all that time that they need to fill with news and every aspect of that news as much as humanly possible. The only advantage that network news has is tradition. Jennings, Rather, and Brokaw are household names, and have been watched for over 30 years.
I've started to watch Shepard Smith on Fox news, due to my dad's frequent questions of "did you watch Shep last night?" After watching him during this week, I see why the constant harassment. His interviews of criminologists on the sniper case, was amazing. The spokesman, wouldn't answer his questions, and kept referring to previous cases. He kicked them off his show. He said "if you"re not going to answer me, then get out of here", then said get him out, and then the criminologist had to leave. I've never seen anything like that before in news or an interview. Other than that, on Fox news, and CNN, they covered everything, as it happened; CNN had a phone interview with Malvo's father. He is in Jamaica, and for some reason that hindered the phone's clarity. Even though he didn't offer any helpful news, the conversation was on for over 20 minutes. It made it seem like they were just "filling time" instead of giving news. My other major criticism of cable news is how fast they pushed the case aside. When news of the senator's plane crash came in; the sniper was no longer in the news crawl, not to mention the active report. It was nice to know that a horrible accident had occurred, but they could have finished up their thoughts on the sniper first.
Although network news (NBC and ABC) didn't spend nearly as much time on the current news, at night, both Peter Jennings, and Tom Brokaw, re-capped the major case turning points, and major events of the day.
Fear and anxiety were the reactions to all the news coverage and as a result there was heavy selling of stocks. The current sniper situation in the Washington D.C. area is effecting our economy, which in turn, effects the stock market. ... People have cancelled tours and if the sniper continues the impact will get worse. ...
Security considerations and media coverage of terrorist incidents, nor the way the western world view's terrorism have ever been the same since. ... Five German police snipers were also positioned at the airport with vantage points of the helicopter landing site. ... It is at this point that a German sniper took an opportunistic shot at Issa, unfortunately missing due to poor lighting, only to shoot Tony through the thigh. German authorities then give the order to other snipers to open fire. At 11pm, two of the Palestinian terrorists holding the pilots at gunpoint are shot by snipers an...
However the news is presented to us it varys according to the coverage offered by each medium. ... Even with the Sniper case the information was in detailed in The Record but when watching the same news on CKCO news the story was not given to me fully maybe because as a viewer I was distracted with the video of showing a blue chevrolet caprice. Now this car was relevant to the issue since it was used in the sniper case however, as a viewer I was to busy looking at the car rather then actually listenting to the storyteller. ... For instance the news coverage on what cities are best and worst wh...
Blair worked on numerous articles that were full of emotional energy; the return of Jessica Lynch, the DC sniper and coverage on soldiers in Iraq. ... That is the reason that in October of 2002 Blair was promoted and trusted to cover the Washington sniper case. ... Blair landed a front-page exclusive with startling details about the arrest of John Muhammad, one of the two sniper suspects," according to The Times. ... Senior editors were discussing a permanent slot on the national reporting staff for Blair, who was falsely showing dedication and ambition by taking numerous assignments and tr...
A presidential commission headed by the chief justice of the United States, Earl Warren, later found that neither the sniper nor his killer "was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy," but that Oswald had acted alone. ... Long remembered as "John-John," the three-year-old who stoically saluted his father's casket during live television coverage of the funeral procession, John Jr. became the founder and editor-in-chief of the political magazine George in the mid-1990s. ...
There was world-wide coverage of the events. ... The third being that there were IRA snipers in two of the flats ready to open fire on the soldiers, but in fact no members of the IRA were told not to attend the march during Bloody Sunday. ...
Media coverage may be effective in displaying a group's dissatisfaction with government in one area of the country and will trigger another group in another area to mirror their actions (Knoblauch, Callahan 1975) Law enforcement officials may know groups, areas, and times which have a great potential for disturbance but when a riot breaks out, they must be physically and psychologically prepared to do their job. ... A sniper is usually assigned to eliminate the ringleader. ... However, in the United States, the use of warning shots is strictly forbidden because they can easily be conf...
As some of them succeeded in returning to the states, (and with the diligent coverage of the media), horror stories from the battle fields of Vietnam quickly spread across the country. ... American soldiers marching in platoons and driving in convoys were easy for Viet Cong snipers to pick off. ...
The Civil Rights Movement had a profound affect on the United States. It brought about a change concerning minorities, primarily African-Americans. The Civil Rights Movement was a battle of ideals of what was right and wrong. The Movement was at its acme from 1954-1965. Steps toward equality beg...
