Ok, so I just noticed something while watching a breaking news special on MSNBC regarding a fire at an assisted living complex in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Why are the senior officials who are all supposed to be running or at least supervising operations doing extended interviews with multiple news stations?
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that if the news is still breaking, that is, the event or crisis is going on you should be working towards averting, containing, or at the very least trying to handle the crisis and not answering banal, trite questions from news anchors.
And don’t think this is an isolated incident either. In fact, this actually triggered my memory of news coverage of almost every single incident where something messed up is going on. I know the news is important and I’m the last person that lives in any sort of bubble, making a constant and concerted effort to keep abreast of current events around the world, but hey trust me I can definitely wait an extra 5-10 minutes, or even a whole couple of hours if it means shit’ll go right instead of someone getting hurt, dying, or things just generally not going as well as they could have if someone was doing their job instead of sounding or looking pretty for the camera.
Oh, and btw…I turned back to MSNBC a couple minutes later and while only smoke was visible on like one floor before, now the entire building is covered in flames.
Good job.
