Doesn't it seem that media coverage of important happenings is desensitized. There is no show of any real feelings of pain that the public may feel about the issue? It's like an anchor will say 10 people die in train wreck, and then just go on with some other topic without really giving people a chance to feel. To top it off the media sensationalizes news that is really not that important IMAO. It pisses me off.
Actually, in journalism it is supposed to be as objective as possible, removed from the emotion of the event and bring the ppl the "news." Being ppl anchors on occasion let it be known how something affects them, such as Walter Cronkite getting emotional on air reporting John Kennedy's assassnation. What irritates me is the local talking heads who do comment on news items, usually giving the local "acceptable" view rather than objectively looking at any other facet of the event. Like a lowly drug dealer gets nabbed in some heinous crime or someone famous gets popped for picking up a prostitute. You will never hear them say, "this is another problem created by criminalizing a popular vice."
