Response to KC Ciresi's Media Critique of CNN News
In her article critiquing an article published by CNN News about three infants killed at a daycare in New York, KC Ciresi claims it isn't newsworthy. She makes the argument that while this might be relevant to the friends and family of the victims and the New York community, it didn't matter to her in Louisville, Kentucky.
While this is a valid critique and I don't necessarily disagree completely, this story does have a purpose on a national news source. Around the entire country, there are hundreds of thousands of parents with children that go to daycare every day. If you were a parent of a child in daycare, wouldn't you want to be informed about large events going on in other daycares around the country? In addition, people do like to be informed about what's going on around the country. I sure would want to be informed if three children were stabbed to death (which in this case, they were).
KC is correct that this story doesn't apply to everyone, maybe not even the majority of people. But as I was reading her critique, I kept thinking back to the case of the McMartin Preschool in 1984. (Here's a very informative, intriguing report of the investigation: https://youtu.be/2R21tWs-qCw ) To summarize the case, two parents charged a teacher at the McMartin Preschool with abuse to their toddler. While the case was being viewed in court, other similar stories of parents accusing their child's preschool teachers with abuse started popping up all over the country. Although this was just one incident in Los Angeles, because it was reported across the country, other stories similar to it began to emerge and other sexual offenders were put behind bars.
The story of the stabbing of the three infants is hearbreaking and horrific to read, but it is necessary and newsworthy, as it's important to other events in current national news.
By Lily Wobbe
Read KC's full article: http://kcblogs3.blogspot.com/2018/09/media-critique-cnn-news-3-day-old-and-2.html
To view the CNN story: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/09/21/daycare-worker-stabbing-babies-adults-new-york-mxp-vpx.hln
(Disclaimer: The story was not linked on KC's article, so I cannot verify that this is the exact article she critiqued.)
While this is a valid critique and I don't necessarily disagree completely, this story does have a purpose on a national news source. Around the entire country, there are hundreds of thousands of parents with children that go to daycare every day. If you were a parent of a child in daycare, wouldn't you want to be informed about large events going on in other daycares around the country? In addition, people do like to be informed about what's going on around the country. I sure would want to be informed if three children were stabbed to death (which in this case, they were).
KC is correct that this story doesn't apply to everyone, maybe not even the majority of people. But as I was reading her critique, I kept thinking back to the case of the McMartin Preschool in 1984. (Here's a very informative, intriguing report of the investigation: https://youtu.be/2R21tWs-qCw ) To summarize the case, two parents charged a teacher at the McMartin Preschool with abuse to their toddler. While the case was being viewed in court, other similar stories of parents accusing their child's preschool teachers with abuse started popping up all over the country. Although this was just one incident in Los Angeles, because it was reported across the country, other stories similar to it began to emerge and other sexual offenders were put behind bars.
The story of the stabbing of the three infants is hearbreaking and horrific to read, but it is necessary and newsworthy, as it's important to other events in current national news.
By Lily Wobbe
Read KC's full article: http://kcblogs3.blogspot.com/2018/09/media-critique-cnn-news-3-day-old-and-2.html
To view the CNN story: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/09/21/daycare-worker-stabbing-babies-adults-new-york-mxp-vpx.hln
(Disclaimer: The story was not linked on KC's article, so I cannot verify that this is the exact article she critiqued.)
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