Buried news?
The life of a news cycle can be strange at best. What is hot now in the mind's eye is cold tomorrow, but someone still has to report on it. As a former journalist, there was always a sense of frustration when a good story went from the front page to the back of the paper. It was still important to report, but the feeling was it was no long interesting to the every day person.
I got that old feeling this morning when reading about the Egyptian "revolution" again today and last week. This story set social media ablaze a few months back, but the repercussion stories...the true stories of what is happening are becoming old hat. CBS's Laura Logan's retelling of a brutal attack at the hands of Egyptian men while reporting on the "revolution" was prime time on 60 Minutes two weeks ago. However, it got lost quickly in the Osama bin Laden mix. However, over the weekend, more violence has broken out between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, but aside from some small stories, it is going very under reported in the social medial universe.€
Is it because it does not mesh with the story of a peaceful revolution? Is it buried news?
I got that old feeling this morning when reading about the Egyptian "revolution" again today and last week. This story set social media ablaze a few months back, but the repercussion stories...the true stories of what is happening are becoming old hat. CBS's Laura Logan's retelling of a brutal attack at the hands of Egyptian men while reporting on the "revolution" was prime time on 60 Minutes two weeks ago. However, it got lost quickly in the Osama bin Laden mix. However, over the weekend, more violence has broken out between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, but aside from some small stories, it is going very under reported in the social medial universe.€
Is it because it does not mesh with the story of a peaceful revolution? Is it buried news?
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