>>"The sad part is that, with few exceptions, the news media isn't factual, doesn't cover stories that need to be covered, and exhibits poor judgement and lazy reporting skills."
What's sad, IMHO, is the unfair generalizations that people toss off as conventional wisdom. You can't expect CNN to tell you what happened, in-depth, in every town in America. If TV news simply read statistical facts for every location affected by every disaster, that would be thorough coverage that you would never watch.
Nearly every community of any size has a newspaper, and nearly every one of them has a web site. I'm sure you can find out a lot about what happened in inland Mississippi or Florida or Louisiana by Googling some places there.
I know some here are mostly talking about major TV news networks, but when you say "news media" and journalism, it still means thousands and thousands of reporters, editors, and photographers who work as journalists in communities across the country. I'm sure the newspapers and local TV stations in inland communities that had damage are all over the story. If your local paper or radio station or TV channel isn't, then you should call them on it.
A lot of people like me commit journalism for a living and aren't working at FOX, CNN or MSNBC. Whether it's dog catchers or dentists or ditch diggers or stewardesses or journalists or meteorologists, is it ever fair to say that nearly everyone in a particular profession is bad and does bad work?
Except lawyers, of course.
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