Pack journalism is so common. I feel like I am seeing the same boring stories on every television channel and on different online news sources. This form of journalism is when different news outlets tend to cover the same stories/topics. As I was surfing the web, I noticed the same story repeated over and over. I narrowed my search down to four different media outlets including Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, and WWW.News.com. Each of the four websites displayed a story about Frank T. Caprio, who is a democrat running for the senate in Rhode Island. All of the stories state that President Obama was making a campaign stop in Rhode Island (a dominantly Democratic state) today, but he was not getting a particularly warm welcome from the state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Obama was receiving a negative welcome because previous to his stop in Rhode Island, he said that he would not be endorsing Democrat Frank Caprio. This did not sit well with Frank. That same day, Caprio told a local radio station that the president can “take his endorsement and really shove it.” Mr. Caprio continued to say, “"We had one of the worst floods in the history of the United States a few months back and President Obama didn't even do a flyover of Rhode Island like President Bush did when New Orleans had their problems. He ignored us and now he's coming into Rhode Island and treating us like an ATM machine” (WWW.CNN.com). The point is, and I feel this is more common with political news versus other news, that different media outlets continuously report the same old story.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/r-i-democrat-tells-obama-to-shove-it/?ref=politics
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