Bordering on bufoonery

As soon as an major incident comes to the attention of the media, they go into ‘wall to wall’ coverage. Anchors relay ‘factual’ information from studios hundreds to thousands of miles away and EXPERTS are put on air from studios or their home nowhere near the actual event. In fairness to these experts, their credentials are impeccable, but their experience ii from scenes where they were present and had ‘real time’ information, not basing their analysis on second or third hand information. As one retired FBII agent stated, “Nine out of the first ren reports are inaccurate.” They are being paid to ‘guess’ what is actually happening at the scene, based on no more information than the viewer has.
They show ‘loop video’ of the scene, because the actual scene is probably stagnant and would be boring for the viewer.
The public demands immediate information of something that has just occurred, and that is not realistic.
When there was only local news in the morning, afternoon and evening and thirty minute national news in the evening, media outlets had the time to provide validated news to their viewers. The advent of CNN and the twenty-four hour news cycle forced news organizations to go LIVE without the facts. The ‘wall to wall’ coverage forces them to fill the minutes and hours of nothing happening with incessant chatter about that of which they have no accurate knowledge.
Demanding press briefings only pulls the decision-makers from their real duties to stand in front of a microphone and not answer the questions being screamed at them.
A fundamental change needs to be implemented to allow public safety to disseminate information to the public. The media is obligated to provide timely and accurate information.