'Tis the season… for the Year in Review. You know the deal. News shows, newspapers and magazines highlight the big moments of the past year. What was hot, what fizzled, what big events caught the attention of the country. This year, In The Loop turns the tradition on its head with a look at what the media missed in 2007.
*Clears throat* Well that ought to be interesting listening, since I even missed the show's airing last night. I did catch a glimpse, because In the Loop's host Jeff Horwich sat down with Tom Crann to talk about stories the media missed. Horwich outlined some of the stories, such as Muslim youth in schools, gay sports leagues, and a Little Falls, Minn., woman, who became a U.S. citizen...at the age of 106.
What you think the media missed in 2007? What didn't the media cover, or what could have been covered better?
________________
Julia Schrenkler
Interactive Producer
MinnesotaPublic Radio
American Public Media
Objectsin Mirror
Â
recommend
Facebook
Twitter
bookmark 
print
Comments: 4
Nationally, the rise of free market pro-US/Bush administration leaders in Europe such as Merkel and Sarkozy. Now the "non-biased" US media has very little to say. Amazing.
Locally, the old guard media, has been very tight lipped over the Mark Ritchie case. Just think of all the uproar if a Republican pulled a stunt like this. The standards are different for Democrats than the Republicans for media coverage.
And locally, I can't believe more "Woodward and Berstein" type investigative reporters have not looked into and demanded answers in the Treptow/Beard gun contfrontation summer in Coon Rapids. Amazing how "under reported" this story was and continues to be.
Thank goodness for MPR!
I don't watch the 9 or 10 o'clock news anymore.
I might have to give this a chance.
What a concept! News!
I like Kitty's answer in that professional media often does report non-news. But to say "who cares," well, clearly a lot of people do care! It must sell and sell well or they wouldn't include it in their coverage. Companies wouldn't advertize on their public space.
It's human nature to be interested in one another's business, even the private, "dirty" stuff. That's part of how we survive. We are a social creature.
But back to Julia's topic, I'd like to see more mainstream coverage of what really affects the every-day-person. I'd like to see more about the culture of every-day-people. Most people I know do not listen to the latest musicians, but that is what bombards us in the Entertainment pages.
More people attend high school plays, imo, than something at a theater where tickets cost $59 a piece. It's not only the price, but we're going to the smaller venues because that's where our children and their friends are. Obviously covering the high school play itself has limited appeal, but what about covering the human element of community theater?
Good topic, Julia.