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When Are We Going To Talk About Journalistic Integrity or Lack Thereof?
When are we finally going to rise above online chatter and Twitter wars, and figure out ways to resolve pending items that desperately need to be addressed?
Why are we satisfied with bitter feuds with energetic strangers that lead to traded insults and the belief that your vision and assessment is the only reasonable contender that can’t be successfully challenged away from the front runner?
For the past few weeks, following the horrifically tragic death of iconic sportsman Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter/budding protege, and seven other victims, we’ve been embroiled in a relentlessly polarizing debate over morals and principles, as it pertains to dignified coverage of a catastrophic event.
The chaos literally began less than an hour after the confirmation of Bryant’s death in a chartered helicopter, that crashed into a hillside in Calabasas, California, on a foggy Sunday morning.
The weather in Los Angles on that fateful day was bad enough to ground the fleet of helicopters assigned to the LAPD, but for reasons that mystify, Bryant’s hired pilot was determined to risk it all for the goal of getting his passengers to their basketball tournament.
