What made all this muckraking so patently egregious was that representative editorialists from both papers and broadcasters from the CBC all bemoaned the attention she was getting with headlines like, “Are you as fed up with Karla as I am?” or “Karla H media circus isn’t in anyone’s interest.” All this, of course, after they each had (and will continue to have) their pound of her flesh. Such blatant hypocrisy is precisely why we need more of the fresh approach of “citizen journalism” which The English Bay Banner hopes to sustain.
In the future, I suggest a new media policy: never print the pictures of convicted criminals, just their names to shame them. And then forget about them before weak-minded low-lifes decide they want all of that glory for themselves and go do a Mark David Chapman.
The common media has to end their embarrassing habit of charging around like a frenzied mob after criminals with their cameras bouncing off their shoulders and mikes shoved in everybody’s faces screaming out their loaded questions, or what little credibility this crazed media has left will soon evaporate altogether.
Creating an appetite for garbage is hardly a noble vocation.
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