Today, looking at the news from today, I found another article about balloon boy. An incident that occurred over a week and half ago and has very little newsworthy merit has already been covered by many news stations many times.
The article I found was very critical of the coverage of the story. Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote about the hyped up news coverage of this story and many others in the past. In his article "In Defense of the 'Balloon Boy' Dad," Rich talks about the huge amount of reality television in entertainment and the news. He also mentioned the countless other times the news turned a small, unimportant story into worldwide, urgent media topic.
Rich made a good case for the irrelevance this balloon and family have in the news. However, that does not stop media sources from covering it or even Rich for that matter. I am giving balloon boy more coverage by just talking about all this in my blog. So when does stop?
If it was a hoax, Richard Heene is getting all the news coverage he wanted; good and bad. All the news stations that reported on the story at first were the beginning and are to blame for giving this story even a small amount of merit. However, it should stop there. Talking about how ridiculous the story is or even reporting on reporting is just feeding the story. My blog does it give this incident the covergae is has been and will still receieve but my post just feeds the flame.
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