{"id":1498110,"date":"2022-05-31T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498110"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:30:23","slug":"cnns-brooke-baldwin-media-views-mass-shootings-as-ratings-generating-revenue-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-brooke-baldwin-media-views-mass-shootings-as-ratings-generating-revenue-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Brooke Baldwin: Media Views Mass Shootings as \u201cRatings-Generating Revenue Sources\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnns-brooke-baldwin-media-views-mass-shootings-as-ratings-generating-revenue-sources%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former CNN anchor and reporter Brooke Baldwin is expressing concern at what she described as a trend of television news companies quickly decamping from coverage of mass shootings days after the tragedies take place. <\/p>\n<p>Leading executives at major cable newsrooms, Baldwin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/brooke-baldwin-dont-let-the-cameras-turn-away\/661142\/\">suggests in a piece<\/a> published in The Atlantic on Tuesday, are driven by ratings and revenue figures rather than news value and empathy for victims when they decide how long and to what extent mass shootings and their aftermath should be covered. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a week or 10 days, the outraged public grows tired of hearing about the carnage, loss, and inaction,\u201d Baldwin writes in the piece headlined \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Cameras Turn Away.\u201d \u201cThe audience starts to drop off. The ratings dip. And networks worry about their bottom line. And while the journalists in the field have compassion for the victims of these tragic stories, their bosses at the networks treat the news as ratings-generating revenue sources. No ratings? Less coverage. It\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Nearly every major news outlet in the country has been heavily focused on the recent shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two adults. <\/p>\n<p>Several family members have granted extensive and at times emotional interviews to the various outlets on the ground in Uvalde, with a father of one young victim <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/3502302-father-says-he-learned-of-daughters-death-in-texas-school-shooting-from-classmate\/\">breaking down in tears<\/a> as he described how he learned of her death. That interview with CNN was widely shared across social media and replayed across the various networks. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the incident in Uvalde has renewed a national conversation about gun control, school safety and police preparedness for mass killing events. The Department of Justice is <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3505442-doj-launches-review-of-police-response-to-texas-school-shooting\/\">investigating the police response<\/a> to the shooting after local law enforcement has given conflicting accounts of how police and federal authorities handled the situation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"thehill-promo-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/pundits-blog-author\/306907-flashback-hamilton-once-had-casting-notice-seeking-non-white-performers\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tFlashback: \u2018Hamilton\u2019 once had casting notice seeking \u2018non-white\u2019 performers\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/house\/198617-a-quiet-week-in-washington\/\" class=\"thehill-promo-link__link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tA quiet week in Washington\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe conversation has already turned to politics, as some pundits urge a focus on mental health and others on guns,\u201d Baldwin wrote. \u201cSome journalists will try to hold our elected representatives\u2019 feet to the fire. A segment or two will go viral. Americans will share their outrage on social media. And then another story will break next week, and the news cycle will move on.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Baldwin, who worked at CNN for more than a decade, recalled her experience covering several mass shootings while with the network, including at Virginia Tech, Las Vegas and Parkland, Fla. <\/p>\n<p>Baldwin left CNN last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2021\/04\/07\/brooke-baldwin-leaving-cnn-whats-next-its-time-move-on\/7122845002\/\">saying at the time<\/a> she had made the decision so she could be \u201cthe bravest version of herself.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CNN anchor and reporter Brooke Baldwin is expressing concern at what she described as a trend of television news companies quickly decamping from coverage of mass shootings days after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1891732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}