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Newtown Ct. School Massacre coverage in Provideence

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Kenny Atkinson

WPRO-All over it...KUDOS
WHJJ-Glen Beck talking about Kwanza.The one thing I could care less about this time of year is Kwanza.What I care to hear about even less this time of year is Glen Beck talking about Kwanza.
This is what happens when you have no staff at a talk station. At minimum WHJJ should have started simulcasting a CT station that was all over it.Very disapionting. I know it was'nt right down the st. but HJJ could have done something.
 
HJJ offered an alternative rather than repeating the same story you could get from 5,000 other news sources. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea afterall. Choices are good.
 
WHJJ did have coverage of the shooting - the Sean Hannity show from 3-6 PM covered its entire show to the shooting, including all of the press conferences during that time and discussion from guests. And the Mark Levin show as well as the Jim Bohannon show covered the tragedy as well.
 
Skynet74 said:
HJJ offered an alternative rather than repeating the same story you could get from 5,000 other news sources. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea afterall. Choices are good.
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Skynet I respectfully disagree with you.If it was further away I would agree with you but this was right on our doorstep and I ran into someone in Providence who knows someone there.A local touch or a simulcast of CC Conn. station I think should have been on HJJ.Hannity Fine out side of the area.
 
Just today I was talking to a RIPR listener at the Pawtucket Farmer's Market (where we had a table set up) and she gently chided us for being so "wall to wall" in our coverage of the shooting, since so little of the information that anyone had for most of the first 12 hours, including NPR, was either incomplete, misleading, or just plain wrong.

She was 100% correct, but did concede my point that:
  • A: a lot of our coverage was part of our normal lineup of national feeds from NPR that we can't directly control; but our local newscasts and whatnot were the usual mix of local angles on national stories AND just plain local stories (that, being in RI, had nothing to do at all with the shootings in CT), and also that...
  • B: if we didn't devote a lot of coverage to the story, we'd be catching just as much flak from people who wanted all the information they could possibly get about it. Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.
 
kenwood101 said:
Skynet I respectfully disagree with you.If it was further away I would agree with you but this was right on our doorstep and I ran into someone in Providence who knows someone there.A local touch or a simulcast of CC Conn. station I think should have been on HJJ.Hannity Fine out side of the area.
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I see your point. If these were the days before the internet I would probably agree. But now it's just over saturation. Maybe I have this opinion because I saw so much of the same coverage. Literally a loop of the same 5 or 6 pictures of scared school kids, freaking out parents and a couple more kids under a tree. I'm sure it was no different on the radio. Yes these stations were all doing their job. I can't fault them for that. But they were working with to little information and just kept repeating it over and over for hours on end. In instances like this perhaps just a scroll on the bottom of your TV screen until some new info can be provided. On news/talk radio, obviously non-stop coverage makes sense. But I do appreciate other options when I've heard all that can possibly be heard in one sitting. The wall to wall coverage was crazy on Friday! Maybe I just wanted a little more Christmas cheer and I was pissed that something ruined it. RIP to all the innocent people effected. This was awful any way that you look at it.
 
Lets end this thread on a positive note.I think we can all agree.Everybody killed on Fridays massacre in Newton are hopefully at peace in heaven with wings this holiday season and may glad them all
 
I'm with Skynet on this one...I was looking for an alternative myself to get away from the constant bombardment of bad news throughout the weekend. Sometimes, counter programming isn't a bad thing.

Skynet74 said:
HJJ offered an alternative rather than repeating the same story you could get from 5,000 other news sources. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea afterall. Choices are good.
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Interesting to note that on this morning's edition of Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld on FNC, Andy Levy, John Bolton, Jim Norton, Jedediah Bila and Bill Schulz had an amazing discussion on the subject. Better than anything else I've been subjected to since Friday afternoon. A very frank discussion. I hope you had a chance to watch.
 
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