Sunday, February 26, 2012

Interruptions


The content of Geraldo at Large is not what I was focused on I was focused on how he treated his guest speakers. The way that Geraldo interrupted the two senators is what irritated me. Fox is not the only media outlet that does this, it is often times all news media outlets. Reporters are all on a time schedule so they are continually interrupting speakers to ask the next question when they haven’t even finished answering the first one. If reporters would allow speakers to finish their answers, people would receive a lot more information. If reporters would allow the speakers to finish explaining their answer, there would probably not be the need for hours of explanation following the interview. I realize that reporters cannot allow speakers to use up all of their airtime on one question but there does need to be limitations. Also, the more that government officials talk the more people learn about them; since the medias job is to inform the public I believe that the media should allow speakers to complete their thoughts on a whole issues before they start to ask another question. We talked in class about how the media tells a huge story in 20-30 second sound bites. This is not allowing people to know the whole story just a small tidbit, which can lead to confusion because people only know 30 seconds of an hour-long story.  

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