Media overkill kills stories
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Shocking isn’t it? The picture above shows some of the damage from the epicentre of last week’s quake. Some people were woken up no doubt, others lost crockery.
Apart from a serious injury was there any need to dominate the pages and airwaves with this?
And then there was Prince Harry.
Brave lad. He has done the right thing and you have to admire him for that. But surely the disproportionate coverage the media has devoted to the story works against their original aim.
When a personality or a story have too much media coverage it undoubtedly starts to grate: people push back against it as though they were being forced into believing something. It is a natural reaction.
Half the coverage of the Prince Harry story would have got the message across just fine and with more impact.
What else happened in the news last week? I really don’t know.
