Arubans complain that “unbalanced and overblown coverage by the U.S. media has put TV ratings ahead of professional journalism,” the St. Petersburg Times’ reports.
There are hardly any new developments — but “with networks paying as much as $1,500-a-day for freelance cameramen, $300 to $400 for hotel rooms for producers and crew, as well as $3,000 for satellite feeds, any tidbit will do.”
Jim Knox, a West Palm Beach businessman who is sponsoring a two-dog search team on the island, admits that “we feed them [the media] chum to keep them happy. We don’t like doing it. We do it to keep the story alive.” Here’s the rest. (Via Romenesko)
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