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A media feeding frenzy is intense media coverage of a story of great interest to the public.
The 1998 Lewinsky scandal in the U.S. was a well-noted example of this.
This morning, wind and tide have conspired to strand schools of fish in backwater ditches. And the birds are taking advantage of it. It's a feeding frenzy! White Ibises, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, and American White Pelicans join in. Thanks to the National Wildlife Refuge System, these birds - and many others - can thrive in. Feeding Frenzy guitar tab by Within The Ruins with free online tab player. One accurate version. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal.
The metaphor, drawing an analogy with feeding frenzies of groups of animals, was popularized by Larry Sabato's book Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism and American Politics.
Other examples include media coverage of 'crime waves' that often drive changes in criminal law to address problems that do not appear in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the most reliable indicator of actual crime in the U.S.; unlike the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the NCVS is not affected by changes in people's willingness to report crimes to law enforcement and in the willingness of law enforcement to forward UCRs to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for inclusion in national summaries.[1]
Sacco claimed that media outlets try to organize their reporting as much as possible around themes to help them amortize over several reports the work required to educate a journalist to the point where s/he can discuss a subject intelligently. These themes become 'feeding frenzies'.[2] The availability cascade helps explain the human psychology behind a media feeding frenzy.
Of course, a commercial media organization could lose advertising if they had a media feeding frenzy that affected an advertiser's business: Advertisers don't want to feed mouths that bite them, and have been known to modify where they spend their advertising budget accordingly. Commercial media disseminate negative information about advertisers only to the extent required to keep customers.[3]
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- ^Sacco, Vincent F. (2005), When Crime Waves, Sage, ISBN9780761927839
- ^Sacco, Vincent F. (1995). 'Media constructions of crime'. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 539 (1): 141–154. doi:10.1177/0002716295539001011. cited from Potter and Kapeller (1998, pp. 37-51; see especially the section on 'The Content of Crime Problems', p. 42
- ^McChesney, Robert W. (2004). The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. Monthly Review Press. ISBN1-58367-105-6.
Feeding frenzy download. Oct 15, 1976 Directed by Russ Mayberry. With James Garner, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Santos, Susan Howard. Jim helps a friend who wants to pay back money he stole three years earlier when his daughter then gets kidnapped leading to problems for Jim with the kidnappers and the police. Watch The Rockford Files - Season 3, Episode 4 - Feeding Frenzy: Jim helps Charlie and Sandy Baylock, when Charlie wants to return some stolen money to a company he used to work for, bu. Oct 15, 1976 Rockford runs after a masked gang of kidnappers and takes a shot at them. His bullet strikes and dislodges the left-front hubcap of their awaiting vehicle. As they drive off, the hubcap can be clearly seen on the left-front tire, from which it had fallen. Jim (James Garner) tries to help his friend Charly Blaylock (Eddie Firestone) turn over a new leaf by returning the $650,000 that Charly had stolen years earlier from the Seawell Oil company.