Monday, September 24, 2007

9-24-07 fire pics but no story

I was on the Cnn website, as I often am, looking for visual bias in the video new stories. Each one that I viewed seemed objective until I found the video entitled: “Department Store Fire.” I clicked on the video clip (with a caption that read: “Australian firefighters battle a fire in a Hobart department store.”) and the entire story was just shots of firefighters hosing down a building. There was no commentary at all. I think this story had absolutely no reason to be on Cnn- places burn down all the time and those fires don’t make the news. So, why should this? Especially when there was no story behind it. I think this is a lapse in cnn’s judgment and I don’t think it should have been posted, on what I consider to be a reputable news website.

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