By Julie Hinds
Detroit Free Press
Published on 5/3/2004
Excerpt:
“When this kind of thing is being covered, what else is not being covered, if anything?” says veteran broadcaster Al Tompkins, who teaches at the Poynter Institute in Florida, a school for journalists. “That said, just as newspapers cover a wide variety of stories, so should TV stations be able to cover all kinds of things.”
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