tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257742451684854285.post1241065331161893447..comments2023-06-07T12:37:50.212-03:00Comments on Insights Inside a Mind: Spare me your outrage@bigpicguyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03969532281852747355noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257742451684854285.post-61160013072485409722011-07-04T20:33:47.675-03:002011-07-04T20:33:47.675-03:00I think there's room in the 24 hour media cycl...I think there's room in the 24 hour media cycle to talk about a helpless dog dying a slow, painful death and the other important issues you have mentioned. One does not preclude the other in good media. The point you seem to miss is that our media CHOOSES to run the dog stories, the look-at-the-shiny government stories, the celebrity stories is because they are easy stories to run. The reason they grab on to one thing and overplay it to the point of ridiculous is because it's easy. It fills the page, the time slot and the budget. No serious investigations needed.<br /><br />Our media falls down, not for reporting human interest stories, but failing to incorporate them appropriately with real news, which they increasingly fail to report at all.<br /><br />YukonGaleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257742451684854285.post-90153587676386654852011-07-04T18:15:50.504-03:002011-07-04T18:15:50.504-03:00Mostly, I agree with this. The one proviso I would...Mostly, I agree with this. The one proviso I would add is that if this is the first known dog death like this this year, then highlighting it is a decent way of waking up some people about caring for their animals.<br /><br /> That said, yeah the news coverage of anything meaningful generally sucksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com