News making News

It has recently occurred to me just how much the media is able to take news they have reported on and make it into whatever they want, allow me to explain. The incident that sparked this realization was the recent shooting of three muslims apparently over a parking space rather than a hate crime. Now there was a touch of scandal on the sites I visited over the fact that a lot of news stations were reluctant to pounce on this terrible incident. however that is not the issue i noticed recently, it has been obvious for a while that the media will pick and chose breaking news depending on the victim, bu thats a topic perhaps for another day. the phenomenon i noticed came when i saw a clip from insider edition, where rather than report on this tragic incident, they instead simply used it to have something to report on. that is to say, insider edition briefly mentioned the incident, then used the parking issue part of the story to segway into a segment on how to deal with finding a parking space. they completely overlooked the issue of the the murders. this media outlet simply took a piece of news and used only the parts they wanted to and added a considerable amount of their own material so they could both take credit for dressing the issue and they could avoid boring their viewers with a relevant important issue by adding some random segment about how to find a parking space. The insider edition took a piece of real news and made it into a simple parking issue that was fluffy enough to report on for their audience. So rather than fully report on a serious issue they changed the entire angle of the story simply to please their audience rather than objectively inform them. i of course recognise that insider edition has the objective of being the most respected news outlet on television but if they can do this, than who is to say other news outlets aren't doing it constantly, they most certainly are. the news should be never be fluffed up or manipulated to be less than it is, three muslim murders by a white man hardly looks like just a simple issue of parking, the news should never be changed to something it isn't. The news is about the truth of what happened not the truth of what people want to hear.