{"id":601,"date":"2013-10-11T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-10-11T17:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T21:09:21","slug":"isnt-news-media-supposed-to-be-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/isnt-news-media-supposed-to-be-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t news media supposed to be united?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By MATIAS WODNER<\/p>\n

Isn’t news media supposed to be united? At least, that’s what I usually like to believe.<\/p>\n

Following Sunday’s epic showdown between the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys, wherein the Broncos squeaked by the ‘Boys 51-48, there was a showdown in and of itself among local Cowboys news media members.<\/p>\n

Though not much is really known about the nature of the incident, apparently there was a little bit of a turf war between different local news reporters inside the Cowboys’ locker room. They were just jostling for position to interview a certain player. It actually prematurely shut down the Cowboys locker room.<\/p>\n

Do these reporters have any semblance of discretion or compassion?<\/p>\n

Sometimes it seems like the news media just wants the attention on itself in order to increase ratings or readership. Sometimes I don’t really have any idea what they are doing. This seems like a case of both the former and the latter.<\/p>\n

If media members covering the same team can’t even get along with each other in a completely controlled environment, then I am not surprised in any way by the status of our country at the moment. The government shutdown seems to make a little more sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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