It's really hard to figure out whether this is a news story or a random criticism of other local media, but either way it's hilarious.
From the "story."
"Crime, the more salacious or egregious the better, gets a lot of time in the media."
It gets a lot of time in UTW, too. Two standing columns in most issues, in fact: "Body Count," which is a list of the people who have been murdered, and the grammatically challenged "Who's Shooting Who," which turns a list of gunned-down locals into a bulleted (pardon the pun) list.
UTW has published this despite the apparently declining murder rate, as referenced above.
re: reporter Jennie Lloyd's comment: "We have stopped running both our "Body Count" and "Who's Shooting Who?" columns."
As of recently, sure. But UTW ran those seedy columns for quite a while. Maybe years.
If your paper wants to pave a new, non crime-hyping path — that's great. But maybe it should but a bit more time on the clock before it starts calling out its competitors for coverage it too would have published only a few issues ago.
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Re: Media Watch
From the "story."
"Crime, the more salacious or egregious the better, gets a lot of time in the media."
It gets a lot of time in UTW, too. Two standing columns in most issues, in fact: "Body Count," which is a list of the people who have been murdered, and the grammatically challenged "Who's Shooting Who," which turns a list of gunned-down locals into a bulleted (pardon the pun) list.
UTW has published this despite the apparently declining murder rate, as referenced above.
So who's being fed by crime hype and frenzy?
Re: Media Watch
As of recently, sure. But UTW ran those seedy columns for quite a while. Maybe years.
If your paper wants to pave a new, non crime-hyping path — that's great. But maybe it should but a bit more time on the clock before it starts calling out its competitors for coverage it too would have published only a few issues ago.
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