When I was in local news, it was just that, “local news.”
Today it seems the more affluent stations in big markets see
local news as national news.
One of the major stations in New York City sent a reporter
to Charleston, South Carolina to cover the Church shootings story.
To my mind, that’s not local news. Sure, it’s tragic, it’s
sad, it’s emotional, it has national import, but it’s not local news.
Again, to me, sending a local reporter out of town to report
on a story of this type is bordering on sensationalism. Bringing in a local
reporter from the story’s area is fine, but sending a reporter who does not
know the city’s gestalt or have the trusted contacts is once aging using a murder-tragedy as tabloid journalism.
Despite the enormity of the story, there must be just as
many poignant stories in the New York City environs that serve the local
audience to a far greater degree.
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