Current Issues in Journalism

There's so much unknown about the shooter that the media is trying to discover, but after a while, some of these stories are already starting to just become ridiculous. The best example of this is a story I saw linked on MSNBC that talked to a hooker named Chastity that Cho hired a few weeks back.

Does the dirty prostitute really add anything to this story and help us get any closer to figuring out important info about the shooter? Is interviewing her about one-night romp she almost had with the shooter really news? I'd lean towards saying no.

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I understand what you are going at here. I get the feeling from news that is circulated too much that there is just no meaning to it at all. Its a lot like the word like; after the thrid time in one sentence there is just no substance anymore. That should be very embarrassing to news networks. I was sitting next to a friend who has a very average interest in "the news" when the Anna Nicole story broke and the first thing he thought to say was, "Oh no, that is all we are going to hear for three months isn't it?" I couldn't help but wonder if he thought the same thing last week when the shootings happened. If media outlets package their information in a way that many of us sigh a breath of anticipated boredom as soon as it hits the wire then someone isn't doing their job. I hope that I am never trying to sell a product to consumers that they are bored with before it makes it in their hands.