- What the media got wrong in the early stages of the Newtown shooting
- Messy media coverage of Connecticut shooting leaves trail of misinformation
News outlets and social media sites scrambled to deliver details, causing confusion around key details as events unfolded Read more
Family members who live at a distance, get false information. Just as when a soldier falls in battle, we learned from Vietnam that there is a proper protocol for communicating soldier's deaths. It is kept silent, until family hears in a kind and safe manner. Then the press jump on grieving family members at the scene.
We need for the investigators to do their jobs. We need to review what people, especially the teachers, did right. Parents complained when we began doing lockdowns in schools. But there is a reason for them. It is just the same as the airlines who go to their checklists for proper and safe responses to disasters. Captain Sully had it right!
We need for the investigators to do their jobs. We need to review what people, especially the teachers, did right. Parents complained when we began doing lockdowns in schools. But there is a reason for them. It is just the same as the airlines who go to their checklists for proper and safe responses to disasters. Captain Sully had it right!
- Shield your kids
- Don't give them details
- Talk to older kids to ask they protect the younger ones whose imaginations will run
Kids need to be told that this man had mental health issues. That such situations are few and far between.
They need to know that it won't happen in their school.
3 comments:
I do not agree with all Morgan Freemon said, but I do with this one. Good jog on this Jenn.In our school on 9/11 we had an assembly and our executive director talked to the students. Many of the teachers disagreed with what she did. It was what it was, then, and she did what she felt she needed to for already troubled adolescents.
Jenn
I am so grateful to have worked, even in a lowly capacity, in the newspaper industry in the 1960s. I met many real journalists, and watched some become real journalists. I suspect the 60s might have been the last time that really happened. By the 70s, newspapers were becoming computerized, and the end of a long era was in sight.
Today, newspersons no little or nothing about what was once a time-honored craft. Sensationalism is the be all and end all, and there is no honor among thieves.
K
I was surprised at how much misinformation there was too. After a while, I wasn't sure what to believe. Actually, I just didn't want to believe this had happened. It's broken my heart.
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