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How About Something New?
By Meredith Roy
In recent weeks I have noticed that the media has been focusing on horrible events that have happened in the world. Maybe there is a lack of real news stories in the world, but to talk about the same terrible events over and over again makes them lose their meaning—not to say that these "breaking" news stories are not important for people to hear, but talking about them every night can make them seem less real.
Television news programs focus on news stories that involve pain and suffering. These types of stories grab a viewer's attention, but after the first night they start to seem as if they are trying to fill the hour. If the news wants pain, then they should look for more stories, and not stick with the same stories every night.
The topic of these stories is not the problem; it is the consistency of news programs in keeping the same story on the news for over a week. Having the same sad story every night makes the media look as if they have nothing important to talk about, and so they need to use old stories to fill time.
I would really like to see the media looking for different stories to put on their shows on a nightly basis. If there is new evidence in a story, and a breaking point in it, then by all means play it—but when the story is just repeating what someone has said twenty times, change the story to something new!
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