Ratings vs. Journalism. Going Live with Breaking News
Description
When Daniel Jones ignited his truck on the Los Angeles freeway, adult and child audiences saw what turned out to be a gruesome suicide, live and in color. Can real-time coverage of such spectacles truly be called journalism? In this program, ABC News correspondent John Donvan reprises the incident, after which anchor Chris Wallace, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and two TV news directors debate the responsibility of the news media, the qualities of good editorial judgment in a "go live" world, and the role of the ratings race in news coverage.
Runtime
20 min
Series
Subjects
- Television broadcasting of news (20)
- Journalism (185)
- Publishers and publishing (44)
- Television programs (54)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1998
Database
Films on Demand
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