I was amused by this description of the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) coverage of the shootings in Ottowa: Canada Just Showed the US the Exact Right Way to Cover a Shooting.
Given the seriousness of the situation — Canadian MP Kyle Seeback called it a “horrific day” — and given the relative rarity of public shootings in Canada, a media circus would not have been entirely unexpected. Yet CBC, one of Canada’s premiere news organizations, had other ideas.
Rather than the hysterical, high-pitched squealing of some American networks, CBC assumed a miraculously calm tone. As Media Bistro’s Mark Joyella noted, “the rolling coverage was smart, careful, and absolutely un-American.”
I don’t watch TV news. If you do, do you agree with the above assessment of American TV networks, or do you think it’s unfair?
October 24, 2014
The Canadians have not seen Indian media coverage!
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I don’t watch news or anything. In fact I no longer own a television. Three years going and I haven’t missed a thing.
I only followed it online, with the CBC’s text feed. It did seem very non-hysterical compared to US coverage of this kind of horrible event.