TV news producers were forced into crisis-coverage mode Friday to respond to the deadly school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas that left at least 10 people dead, most of them students.
News resources at the major networks were stretched thin on Friday with so many producers, crew members and on-air correspondents already in Britain preparing for Saturday’s royal wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle. Santa Fe High School in the city that lies about 35 miles southeast of Houston is far from the pomp and pageantry of Windsor Castle.
But the increase in the number of mass shootings has resulted in a kind of template for covering such a horrifying tragedy. Interviews with shaken students and grieving parents, a rush to find biographical details about the suspected shooter and discussions with angry activists railing about the lack of curbs on the availability of guns and ammunition have become a chilling staple of TV.
News resources at the major networks were stretched thin on Friday with so many producers, crew members and on-air correspondents already in Britain preparing for Saturday’s royal wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle. Santa Fe High School in the city that lies about 35 miles southeast of Houston is far from the pomp and pageantry of Windsor Castle.
But the increase in the number of mass shootings has resulted in a kind of template for covering such a horrifying tragedy. Interviews with shaken students and grieving parents, a rush to find biographical details about the suspected shooter and discussions with angry activists railing about the lack of curbs on the availability of guns and ammunition have become a chilling staple of TV.
- 5/18/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
The series of events surrounding the protests in Charlottesville have been filling social media and the airwaves since they have started. Fox News Channel has announced that they have changed their primetime lineup to continue live coverage of the situation in Virginia. Correspondents Doug McKelway and Ellison Barber have been reporting live from the scene and will provide updates throughout the evening on the current state of emergency in Virginia, the coverage replacing…...
- 8/12/2017
- Deadline TV
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