I saw a promo on one of my local channels last night that
offended me.
I am usually complimentary of ABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News
in New York, but not in this incidence.
They have dispatched a reporter to Baltimore in anticipation
of disturbances in Baltimore because of a mistrial in the Freddie Gray case.
Channel Seven’s responsibility, and the responsibility of
all the other local television channels in the New York market, is to served the informational
needs of the New York, New Jersey, and portions of the Connecticut, not to
insert a reporter and television crew into the potential mayhem of a Maryland
disturbance and call it local news.
Sure, a report on it from an ABC sister station in Baltimore
would be legitimate.
It’s a tough managerial decision. New York local stations
often send local crews to Rome, Israel and elsewhere because there is a logical
and legitimate local connection to an on-going or developing story.
Sorry WABC, not this time. You are pandering to the voyeuristic
tendencies of your audience.
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