Tuesday, May 21, 2013
IQ: What's in the news?
by Matthew Fullen
Does the news media have the right to choose what it reports to the public? Of course it does. Dan Rather and company choose not to report on the club scene in Manhattan, or on a boy who has cancer living in a small town in Texas. When something has a direct effect on a city or country or on world affairs, however, is it the media's responsibility to report it? What if they don't?
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Brian Vaughan
Sales
Neighborhood: Southwest
What's your primary source of news? The Gazette and The Denver Post and the Internet.
Locally, what important news story do you think was covered up or under-reported last year? I don't know.
Nationally? Elian Gonzalez.
What's the most recent foreign news story you've read? Us trying to create talks with Taiwan and helping them and how China's gonna nuke us.
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Jack Anderson
Retired
Neighborhood: Rockrimmon
What's your primary source of news? [The] Gazette.
Locally, what important news story do you think was covered up or under-reported last year? The follow up [on the] jury process [and] conviction process of the two young men that murdered Jacine Gielinski.
Nationally? The political side of the portrayal of John McCain. I think the media didn't give him a fair shake.
What's the most recent foreign news story you've read? A volcano erupted in Japan.
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Kenton Lloyd
Disc Jockey
Neighborhood: West side
What's your primary source of news? CNN.
Locally, what important news story do you think was covered up or under-reported last year? One thing that is just not addressed enough is the homeless situation.
Nationally? I think, nationally, they're playing down any tensions with China.
What's the most recent foreign news story you've read? The whole Taiwan thing.
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Pamela Pratt
Teacher
Neighborhood: Cascade
What's your primary source of news? Either the Gazette or the Independent.
Locally, what important news story do you think was covered up or under-reported last year? The District 11 election was kind of skewed in a way that it made the public believe that it wasn't what it was.
Nationally? I think all the school shootings and the things that are going on with that is too much.
What's the most recent foreign news story that you've read? I read about Japan this morning. The volcano.
