When I was a kid, Bill Burns did the news on KDKA-TV, next a guy in a gas station outfit did the weather and then someone did the sports. One half-hour, boom.
Now we have cable news 24/7, mostly national and international. Local news is the shortest. Cable news reports have to fill their extended time slots. This creates a sad consequence where what should have been just a local story is now over-reported and becomes a national or international story.
A person is accidentally shot by a policewoman and the story goes national, and it becomes a national racial issue that causes rioting. We have courts nationwide, and the local court should handle the story without a Reverend Al going city to city to agitate the situation, or a politician like Pittsburgh’s undercover mayor saying the city is unfair to Blacks because of the police. Aren’t the Pittsburgh Police being monitored by a group of civilians? Didn’t they or the mayor do their job?
George Biskup
Penn Township, Westmoreland County