Mrknowitall526 115 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Not sure if I'm allowed to start these kinds of threads anymore, but I'm curious what everyone thought of each station's coverage last night of the Amtrak accident. 6ABC was sending all kinds of updates through their app and seemed to have at least 2 reporters on the scene. I feel like they wanted to go full steam ahead (no pun intended), but it was hard to do with the lack of any real sense of what was going on besides the mass chaos that was unfolding. A lot of viewers on Facebook complained that the stations were showing "graphic" images of bloodied victims and that they were really insensitive. I sort of felt the same way, until I saw someone comment that if they were looking for a loved one and had not heard from them (and most likely wouldn't if they were injured or couldn't make a call), they'd be more than happy to see them on TV, even if they were bloody/injured. At least they know they'd be okay. I went to bed around 11:30, how long did live coverage last? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCAUTVNBC10 413 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 WCAU stayed on til 2AM. KYW and WTXF til a little after 1 and WPVI til about midnight. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hexagonal10 84 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 WCAU seems to like, cover everything the most like winter weather. And I was watching WJAR and they just mentioned it as a story with video. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Newsroom 1288 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 It seems like even in a moment like this, there is still time for reunions and pictures. WCAU anchor Tracy Davidson is in some hot water (at least in the eyes of FTVLive) for a picture she took and tweeted with ABC's World News Tonight anchor David Muir. This was taken at the news cluster site. I know it's okay to have a little reunion photo op every once in a while... but come on. Have some respect. (Link: http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/5/14/train-crash-people-deadlets-take-a-selfie) Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 945 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 It seems like even in a moment like this, there is still time for reunions and pictures. WCAU anchor Tracy Davidson is in some hot water (at least in the eyes of FTVLive) for a picture she took and tweeted with ABC's World News Tonight anchor David Muir. This was taken at the news cluster site. I know it's okay to have a little reunion photo op every once in a while... but come on. Have some respect. (Link: http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/5/14/train-crash-people-deadlets-take-a-selfie) Big whoop. Something light in light of something terrible isn't a bad thing. Covering something like that sucks, if they want to escape for a minute while something isn't happening of any importance then fine. The same as cops and firefighters joking at an accident scene... This is normal if you've ever actually been there. It's not all down and depressing. All the folks atwitter that they took the picture are almost being inhuman as was Anderson Cooper in their example in the article. Some people even laugh at funerals as a way to cope. Everyone has a different reaction to these things. Plus where else are they going to run into each other? It's gonna be a big story. I doubt the folks who died mind much at this point... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrknowitall526 115 Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Big whoop. Something light in light of something terrible isn't a bad thing. Covering something like that sucks, if they want to escape for a minute while something isn't happening of any importance then fine. The same as cops and firefighters joking at an accident scene... This is normal if you've ever actually been there. It's not all down and depressing. All the folks atwitter that they took the picture are almost being inhuman as was Anderson Cooper in their example in the article. Some people even laugh at funerals as a way to cope. Everyone has a different reaction to these things. Plus where else are they going to run into each other? It's gonna be a big story. I doubt the folks who died mind much at this point... Yeah, plus David Muir is the "hot thing" right now, so who wouldn't want to meet him / look up to him, even a reporter on a competing station? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 945 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Yeah, plus David Muir is the "hot thing" right now, so who wouldn't want to meet him / look up to him, even a reporter on a competing station? Plus it looks like they worked together in Syracuse so it was seeing an old friend. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyer78 66 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 They worked together there (WTVH-5 /CBS) in the mid-90s, along with Kathy Orr (now CBS3 after a stint at NBC10). Matt O'Donnell is also from Syracuse, he worked at the NBC affiliate; which now runs both the WTVH and WSTM newscasts under the banner "CNY Central"). Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/14407-amtrak-derailment/#findComment-128342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.