Regarding the Coverage of Fort Hood …
Monday, November 9, 2009
Today, I’d like to take a moment to offer up a blog you might not be familiar with. If you’re interested in media analysis, critiques and musings, check out veteran media exec’s Alan D. Mutter’s Reflections of a Newsosaur.
In today’s post, he comments on the media’s ethnic profiling in its Mt. Hood coverage. Click here to check it out.
Interesting view, but I disagree with his conclusion. Yes, there was initial confusion over the facts, as there is with any kind of breaking news. Such is life in a live broadcast world.
In everything I saw, reporters went out of their way to avoid casting aspersions on Muslims or Islam. It was only with subsequent revelations (a variety of aberrant behaviors and anti-U.S. statements, being on the FBI’s radar) that I heard anything about it being a religiously motivated act of terror.