Comments on: Why the press coverage of the Madrid Disaster shocks us http://www.davidjackson.info/2008/why-the-press-coverage-of-the-madrid-disaster-shocks-us.htm Almería food, news, blog, webpages, books, gossip & much more Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:30:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bilingual blogger http://www.davidjackson.info/2008/why-the-press-coverage-of-the-madrid-disaster-shocks-us.htm/comment-page-1#comment-675 Bilingual blogger Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:43:17 +0000 http://www.davidjackson.info/?p=317#comment-675 Yes, I agree with you that the press reaction would've been the same regardless of the country. The initial accounts about the number of dead and injured were so varied and incorrect that it only makes sense that people were desperate for information, any kind of information. Also, initially reports said that the plane skidded off the runaway, then that the engine exploded in the air and then that the plane crashed seconds after takeoff. All the initial news accounts were so confusing and initially misleading. The press is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't, in the first day of coverage of a tragedy like this. If they blanket the airwaves with wall-to-wall coverage, people complain that it is too much. If they continue to air their regularly scheduled programming, people think that the tv media is being callous and insensitive. Yes, I agree with you that the press reaction would’ve been the same regardless of the country. The initial accounts about the number of dead and injured were so varied and incorrect that it only makes sense that people were desperate for information, any kind of information. Also, initially reports said that the plane skidded off the runaway, then that the engine exploded in the air and then that the plane crashed seconds after takeoff. All the initial news accounts were so confusing and initially misleading.

The press is damned if it does, damned if it doesn’t, in the first day of coverage of a tragedy like this. If they blanket the airwaves with wall-to-wall coverage, people complain that it is too much. If they continue to air their regularly scheduled programming, people think that the tv media is being callous and insensitive.

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