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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
Do you think she and Nick will make amends? Will there be another season of Newlyweds? Did she really get implants for those Daisy Dukes?
*Ahem*
I've always found that the media covers stories about other jouranlists with a bit more detail and emotion than others simply because they're colleagues. I don't think that could be called bias. People in different professions tend to look out for their own more than they look out for others. It's not bias, it's sociology.
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Not only that, but think about it from an access standpoint. It can be very difficult to convince people to go on TV. A lot of 'em don't want to - they're shy, embarassed, whatever. They certainly don't want to go on TV after they've been in a wreck, or injured in war, or had some other horrible thing happen to them.
But when something happens to someone in the media, the access is much greater. Ray Farkas (one of the best storytellers on the planet) let a TV crew document his brain surgery (parkinson's disease) and is working on a documentary of it. It can be kinda tough to find someone who wants to give you access like that, so he did it himself. It's one hell of a story too. (and if you're curious, and want to see a "preview" (20 minutes) of it, and a GREAT example of what TV storytelling should be, check
http://www.offcentertv.com/ , click on more videos, then click on summer 2004 brain surgery)