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Let's Make It About the Victims

Here we are, watching coverage of yet another mass-shooting in which there will be plenty of “thoughts and prayers” and nothing else done to stop it from happening again.

This time it is San Antonio and just looking at social media, it appears the stations are already trying to make it “all about us” TV.

The San Antonio TV market is not exactly the place to look for quality journalism.

KSAT, the legacy station, chases low-hanging crime fruit. KENS is so Tengafied they don't even feel local. And WOAI/KABB just follow whatever Sinclair tells them to do.

Yesterday, Some San Antonio kids, kissed their parents and went off to school. 19 of those kids are never coming home and the kids that survived will be dealing with this tragedy for the lives.

I could try and find the words to express the grief, anger and all the feelings about this, but It would be a futile effort.

Let’s face it, when it comes to the politicians that could make a difference, they won’t do a thing. They will kick these kids dead bodies around like a political football and use this tragic event to raise some more campaign dollars to be spent on the stations that are assigned to cover these mass killings.

As for market leader KSAT, they teased their coverage of the shooting with a picture chock full of their Reporters with a behind the scenes control room and then filled the post with hashtags.

Viewers were not impressed.

WOAI used a Facebook photo collage to tease their coverage and they placed a Reporter as the main focus of the story.

I have always found that the best way to convey the story is to show your viewers pictures of what is taking place.

Showing me a picture of your Reporter standing outside a police barricade doesn’t show the emotion of the scene. Yeah, you have a crew there, I think everyone already knows that. We don’t need to cliche shots from the scene while the bodies are still inside.

The focus should be on the victims, not the people reporting the story.

I’m sorry, but viewers in San Antonio deserve better.

Don’t take it from me; take it from the viewers that are posting on your social media and calling the station.

Just saying….

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