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I’d like to take off from David Swift’s letter abt. maintaining, locally, high TV production standards.
What’s up with the growing sensationalized local TV news reporting??A domestic shooting here, a deranged mental patient attacking hospital staff there. The focus seems to be to follow in goosestep the mainland’s media, to run one shocker after another, thus giving HI residents/visitors alike a skewed image of HI exponentially increasing in violence.
Nothing could be farther from the truth Isn’t that what reporting is supposed to be abt.,uncovering the truth?
Why aren’t the three local stations emphasizing what really is exponentially impacting HI residents, and indirectly, visitors? HOw abt. issues such as overdevelopment, how increasing population may very well be headed for a tipping point considering our fragile and very limited natural resources, the way large corporations from the mainland and Asia are making it very hard for HI’s very unique, family owned/operated businesses to fairly compete and remain successful, how people near/below the poverty line live in substandard housing, paying 1 1/2 the times the rent of new/renovated housing on most of the mainland, etc.?? Don’t all three stations have two segments of news (1 hour) an evening M-F, and it’s the same ratings-hiking rubbish both segments.
Yeah, that’s all HI needs, to be whipped into a panic so that residents demand more self- protection (guns) and we could head toward the mainland’s path in other ways as well, such as a Columbine or VA Tech.
I refuse to be made afraid, but then I’m an adult who has learned the hard way not to believe all the hype. What abt. the most impressionable among us, our kids?
Whatever happened to responsible, in-depth reporting? I guess the local media is too busy selling out to care abt. that.

Posted by starbug  on  08/07  at  02:59 PM

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