Too Much Michael Jackson?
Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2009
By Tim Rutten
Many newspaper editors and TV news producers have begun to allow social media volume to function as a ratings system that dictates their news coverage. What's wrong with that? For one thing, it leads to the sort of excess we've all been through since Michael Jackson's death. No editor or producer should ignore the kind of public interest we're seeing, but surrendering utterly to it undercuts what's valuable about serious news media.
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