One thing about the media is that it is always the first to report when something tragic, wonderful, suspicious, intriguing, or just entertaining unfolds. Well, recently I fell like the media just likes to grab any sort of attention with false “just in” news.
Well, on March 17th news hit that British actress Natasha Richardson was dead. The Time Out New York published an article saying that the actress was officially deceased. After their story was released the oh..so famous “ha ha” Perez Hilton got a hold of the news and he then went on to write on his blog that Natasha was indeed dead.
Fact of the matter is that she wasn’t dead at all and the newspaper had “heard” from a source the wrong information.
Why do the media love to thrive on these horrible events? I understand if it has to do with our country, but the fact that it was a young woman, mother, wife and talented actress I just think it is horrific that the media wants to somehow reap benefits from a horrible tragedy like this.
I feel like the media just wants to have anything to talk about and in that sense it will go with stories that may not even be true. The media is like a herd of hungry wolves just circling its prey waiting for the next tragedy.
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Its not really the media's fault that they personally feel the need to fixate on negitive press. It's the people that tune in to the news and media. People love negitive, juicy news. Most of the time the more tragic or malicious it is, people become more intrested. unfortunately more people are going to tune into a story about a tragic event as opposed to a feature about a charity. As for incorrectly releases on Richardson's death, that's poor research. Someone was slacking on the job. I feel sad that my boy Perez was partaking in that naughtiness too.
ReplyDeleteThis was a truly macabre case of media madness--like starving piranha, every news or pseudo news morsel was gobbled up and regurgitated for public consumption. The fact that the event was a true tragedy involving a very attractive, likable actress made it all the worse. I thought at the time that perhaps it would have been better for someone in the family to just issue a brief statement concerning her condition--not that it was any of our business. I just thought that in a vacuum, the press goes wild, so better to feed them something to stop the frenzy.
ReplyDeleteI feel that it is the media's duty to follow up on sources, and check out their credibility before printing a paper based on false facts.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they obviously did not do a clear background check makes them seem childish, like a bunch of school kids fighting over something stupid, like an orange.
I think it's good that they were busted on their myth.
Just like your title says, the media is very hungry for attention and any sort of news that comes out. It's just the American culture that we are attracted to horrible and tragic events. I think this basically comes from watching all these movies. But media should be smart enough to investigate wheter they have credible sources or not.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even hear about this incident but I feel the same way you do, but the media lives off of gossip and drama. The one thing that may make every company that published that story or mentioned the ordeal as if it was true may lose alot of credit from their listeners. Ii I was her I would sue because that could ahe caused alot of unneeded drama and foolishness in her life. No one wants people to mourn oer them when they are still here.
ReplyDeleteyes, the media is too hungry. these need any kind of story to get an edge over the economy. the better the stories the longer they stay in control of thier readers. the less focus and readers they have, the worse their economical ideals get. they are triing to find any kind of dirt they can on celebrities and odd ball stories, just to stay ahead.
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