Only in the spirit of media taking a shot at itself, which I think we can all respect, I think the paradigm of the article can be applied to any type of news st

Only in the spirit of media taking a shot at itself, which I think we can all respect, I think the paradigm of the article can be applied to any type of news story. For example, 14,612 people were murdered in the US in 2011, but how many of those stories were ever heard on national 24 hour news channels, such as CNN? Perhaps a handful through the course of the year which the media focuses in on and exploits to their own financial gain, and the majority of those stories involve attractive white women. It is hard to beat up one anyone openly critiquing themselves, but this could have had much greater impact by examining media behavior vis-a-vis a controversial issue not unequal treatment of two otherwise non-controversial mergers.