No, It's Not A Bird. Just Bad Journalism
Sky news showed us Batman standing on the ledge, Batman getting off the ledge. They even followed Batman on his journey to the police station, street for street, traffic light to traffic light. All this, but little else.
What about the story behind the mask man?
The whole story was handle with little real journalistic flare. Most of the news channels just pointed a camera at some guy in a superhero outfit for almost three hours and tried to fool the world into thinking that was good journalism. This isn’t professional journalism, its lazy journalism.
What about his ex-wife and kids? One would’ve thought they would be central to this story. Why didn’t anyone try getting an interview with her? Or at least try to obtain a statement of some sort. No, the ex-wife was ignored, the details of the custody battle, that Batman was involved in, was ignored and almost any other angle to this story.
Basic questions were never asked. Why did he loose his children? What does he think was unfair about his case. What happened between him and his wife that she now considers him not fit to see his offspring. These aren’t superhuman questions. but the corner stones of this story.
So why didn’t anyone look up these tiny important details? Very simple, cause the image of lone father figure fighting for his rights are far more appealing to the viewers at home then a trespasser that might have done something wrong.
Viewers love a underdog and the news networks know this.
OK so you want to keep this guy clean as a whistle. You don’t want everybody tuning to HBO or Fox. I can understand that. but why not try to find an even more unique angle to this story.
How about how comic giants, Marvel and DC comics. feel about having their benevolent icons involved with such behavior?
Did we every hear that story or any other? No, cause we were too busy focusing on Batman shivering on a ledge.
What about the story behind the mask man?
The whole story was handle with little real journalistic flare. Most of the news channels just pointed a camera at some guy in a superhero outfit for almost three hours and tried to fool the world into thinking that was good journalism. This isn’t professional journalism, its lazy journalism.
What about his ex-wife and kids? One would’ve thought they would be central to this story. Why didn’t anyone try getting an interview with her? Or at least try to obtain a statement of some sort. No, the ex-wife was ignored, the details of the custody battle, that Batman was involved in, was ignored and almost any other angle to this story.
Basic questions were never asked. Why did he loose his children? What does he think was unfair about his case. What happened between him and his wife that she now considers him not fit to see his offspring. These aren’t superhuman questions. but the corner stones of this story.
So why didn’t anyone look up these tiny important details? Very simple, cause the image of lone father figure fighting for his rights are far more appealing to the viewers at home then a trespasser that might have done something wrong.
Viewers love a underdog and the news networks know this.
OK so you want to keep this guy clean as a whistle. You don’t want everybody tuning to HBO or Fox. I can understand that. but why not try to find an even more unique angle to this story.
How about how comic giants, Marvel and DC comics. feel about having their benevolent icons involved with such behavior?
Did we every hear that story or any other? No, cause we were too busy focusing on Batman shivering on a ledge.
Composed by Bee | 9:59 pm
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