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Originally Posted by Juventus3
It's not so much what the media outlets report, it's the way they go about it. Watching CNN during some off time today, I felt like it was a movie as much as a news channel. They make this hollywood theme song and title the it the "VT Campus Massacre" as if it's nothing more than entertainment. So in that sense, I do agree that the networks have been somewhat morally irresponsible, but what else is to be expected in a free market society? Where ever there's money, there are people who are willing to cross any line to get at it.
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Exactly. Where does it stop becoming news and where does it become sensationalism and profiteering? And how are we driving that? Is that a necesaary evil, or something that can be fined tuned?