Quote: Darknight613 said: I think it's more about giving viewers a partial story that leaves them wanting more, and then slowly giving them more as they find out. That's how they get people to keep paying attention to them. They go "Look what we just found out! Keep listening to us, or you won't get all the facts we're getting hot off the press!" (You studied journalism, so I'm sure you know all this.)
I've gotten so used to tuning them out because of these tactics, (which is, ironically, why I don't have any firsthand info of how they're reporting.) It's also why I turned my back on working in journalism (that and my internship with a TV news company wasn't a pleasant experience).
Above any other political agenda, real or imagined, journalists are sensationalists.
Even if that's the case, motive aside, the rush to judgement was real and the potential damage was real.
