Frank Sesno, Lauren Ashburn, David Zurawik and Howard Kurtz discuss what the media did right - and wrong - during the coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre.
Wolf Blitzer, Soledad O'Brien and Howard Kurtz trade notes on what it's like to put aside emotion when covering tragedies like the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut.
By Howard Kurtz, CNN
Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" and is Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He is also a contributor to the website Daily Download.
(CNN) - It was a horrifying front-page photo in every sense of the word.
It felt cheap, degrading and exploitative in a way that words could never match.
The photo captures a Queens man, Ki-Suck Han, after he had been pushed onto the subway tracks Monday as an oncoming train roared toward him. The screaming headline says it all: "DOOMED."
But the New York Post had every right to run the picture.
Fred Francis, Jane Hall and Howard Kurtz examine the media's fascination with the accused Colorado theater shooter.
Bob Cusack, Ana Marie Cox and Ramesh Ponnuru join Howard Kurtz to discuss how the shooting in Aurora, CO was covered by the media.
Paul Farhi talks to Howard Kurtz about the role social media played in the coverage of the mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
Lauren Ashburn, Eric Deggans and Derek McGinty talk to Howard Kurtz about how media figures like Al Sharpton and Geraldo Rivera let their opinions inform their coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.
Eric Deggans, Lauren Ashburn, Derek McGinty and Howard Kurtz examine why it took so long for the national media to take notice of the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
Marisa Guthrie, Eric Deggans and David Zurawik talk to Howard Kurtz about media coverage of the Penn State scandal.
Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim talks about developing sources and local reporting in the Penn State scandal.
Now more than ever, the press is a part of every story it covers. And CNN's "Reliable Sources" is one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover. Host Howard Kurtz is the nation's premier media critic, and each week he questions print reporters, television correspondents and Internet bloggers about how the press is covering the major stories of the week.
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