Letting people die in the name of ratings
By adamg - Wed, 04/23/2008 - 9:20am.
The Outraged Liberal marvels at Channel 7 clamming up on such a juicy story about a high-powered nabob allegedly going berserk at Logan before getting to Channel 4's distressing lack of real interest in public safety - namely, its promo campaign for an upcoming report on killer sushi in Boston:
... [I]f this stuff is so bad for you, don't you have a journalistic responsibility to put the word out now, before people get sick and/or die?
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self-proclaimed
She sounded more like a self-proclaimed high-powered nabob.
Failure to panic?
In other words, OL thinks Channel 4 should be panicking people with sound bites, rather than giving a full account of just what the risks are and aren't?
On the Channel 7 item: Given their reaction, I'm now inclined to believe the Globe's version. But I still consider my initial skepticism the right reaction given the information available at the time.