After watching MSNBC and CNN on endless Manchester news adding

[burrowowl]

nothing, went to PBS got some real news on what is going on: cuts to special ed, Medicaid, dump's statements in Israel and effects, etc. with some analysts and not scarifying crap. And god knows PBS is not the best, but we don't have any other M$M news in the U$ of A.
You have to go to Le Monde, The Guardian, BBC, Buzzflash, Commondreams, etc. M$M is yellow journalism shock and scare!

[WinkyDink]

1. Reporting on the deaths of a score of young people from terrorism is NOT "yellow

journalism."

The "scare" is not "crap," for God's sake.

IT JUST HAPPENED. That is why the story dominates.

Disgusting.

[burrowowl]

2. The way it is treated is and neglecting other important news is

instead of reporting there is much speculation to fill time and I don't call that reporting, it is a distraction of what is really going on. Yes report what happened in Manchester but other serious things are going on.

[leftynyc]

7. All those things you

mentioned will still be true tomorrow and the next day. last night and this morning there are still children missing, perhaps blown up - gee, so sorry you can afford to be thinking about something else. How about realizing how lucky you are this didn't happen to you rather than whining about the coverage. May the dead rest in peace.

[WinkyDink]

16. Oh, that's the problem! You're interested in ALL POSSIBLE news stories! How frustrating!

[titaniumsalute]

20. I listened to Morning Joe for an hour

They discussed the bombing, the Russian-Collusion testifying today, and the budget. Not sure what you are watching or listening to.

[pnwmom]

6. I think the endless repeating of the same videos were unnecessary. n/t

[Atman]

11. The assumption is that people keep tuning in as they hear about it

They're not running the same video over and over just for you. I was watching a movie and didn't hear about the bombing until late. If I had turned on one of the major news channels and they were doing a story about Medicaid cuts -- which has already been in the news for days, if not weeks -- I would have immediately flipped the channel until I found someone who was covering the biggest news story of the moment.

It's not all about you.

[pnwmom]

12. They were showing the same video over and over and over

while DIFFERENT reporters and commentators were off-screen, talking about the attack. If you wanted to HEAR the information that was being presented, you had to listen at the same time you viewed the video recycling over and over and over. Enough already! At the least they should have done a split screen, so there would have been something else to look at while listening to the story, besides the same 15 second reel.

[Panich52]

14. Continuous reports about what they don't know isn't news

[lostnfound]

19. On a repetitive loop with no new information coming? It's what the terrorists want. Nt

[jodymarie aimee]

3. Totally agree owl

As an advocate for elderly poor and disabled, I expected this. My people get hit first and hit HARD. TV doesn't care about these people. Schock and awe terrorism coverage plays right into Cheeto and the Rs plans. Find this truly disgusting. My people, AND ME, will be just as dead as the Manchester folks.

[JI7]

4. it's not as if they would report on those other issues if Manchester attack did not happen

[Panich52]

15. Rep Cummings was sched f/ Maddow, Sen Warren f/ Lawrence

I'd rather have seen those reports that the same few short vids & nothing new.

[aeromanKC]

5. News Porn

If it bleeds, it leads.

[burrowowl]

8. Yup!

But only if it is immediate blood, not mid and long term blood like health care, etc.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

9. Yet I noticed that you have not criticized Fox News

Who almost never cover the serious topics you mention, and are truly masters at using fear to sell their point of view.

[cubbies01]

10. Two things

1) A suicide bombing targeting and killing young women in England is kind of a big deal. A better criticism is how little coverage similar weekly bombings in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan get.

2) I am starting to believe that many are seeing the GOP and Trump with different eyes and realizing they do nothing to make us more safe. Especially Trump, who is bigly messing up our national security.

[Squinch]

13. Oh, come on! The poster didn't criticize Breitbart or bad smells either. You miss the point.

Which is a valid one.

[WinkyDink]

18. I got the point. Little attention span, easily bored, unable to find

remote control, no newspapers to read what one prefers.

Why, one might even think there's no access to a computer!

[burrowowl]

21. Never watch Fox Faux news they are a$$holes

[Panich52]

17. Considered posting on the sensationalism myself

Accd to scroll at bottom, Rep Cummings was to be on Maddow and O'Donnell, who was ditched altogether f/ occasional ghoul Brian Williams, was going to talk w/ Sen Warren. What we got instead was continuous loops of the same short, frantic vids and reports about what wasn't known mixed w/ speculation and conjecture. More informative to keep most of scheduled shows and update on Manchester events.

Not exactly yellow journalism, but too repetitive to be worthy of news shows.

I watched Pirates get beat by Braves instead. (Didn't enjoy that either. 😏