War Is Ugly; Do We Need to See It Up Close on TV?
"I have yet to see any outstanding piece of TV reporting (on the war)," said Todd Gitlin, a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, who summed up the coverage as: "Good pictures, poor interpretation."
"There is very shriveled interpretation with little investigation of the political and security fallout," said Gitlin, who attributed this to "timidity of the networks imprisoned within the technology.
"Even when the pictures are static -- a long shot of the desert or the skyline of Baghdad -- they are intensely riveted on it and so you get more of a photo album, it's not terribly stimulating or illuminating. It was supposed to be thrilling to show this stuff."
"The expectation of the public is that there will be more news and better, but we are getting the opposite," she said.
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