And You Wonder Why The Media Is Unloved?

Michelle Malkin posts this explanation of the tragic misreporting of the Pennsylvania mine incident. It is an e-mail submitted by an anonymous TV insider.

Apparently, it's the locals fault that the media did not stop to verify the story because "[t]he media was not allowed in the church where the family was gathered, and they were not allowed in the command center." Apparently someone committed the great sin of "shoving a CNN camera away." Why don't people understand that the First Amendment guarantees the rights of reporters to be worshipped while feasting on the tragedy of others?

And why would the people not shower roses on the media biggies who came to town? In the same letter by the TV insider :

In small towns like this, where the closest most people get to a TV camera is when Uncle Joe brings it out for Billy's birthday party, the information infrastructure isn't in place like it is in a big city. Officials are not savvy when it comes to disseminating information. Many of them have an actively hostile attitude towards anyone with a microphone.

Well, at least he didn't make fun of gap teeth and insinuate incest between the family members of the victims.

With attitudes like this, is it any wonder that no one wanted reporters inside the church with grieving families or in the command center with people trying to actually do something productive? It is this very arrogance by the elite media that brings the contempt they whine about.

When will they learn?