Who screwed up here? Cori Dauber writes that over the weekend, the family of Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the U.S. Marine who was kidnapped in Iraq, found out about his disappearance and subsequent capture from a media outlet - and not the military - though it unclear which network it was. Both Hassoun and a Pakistani driver, only identified as “Amjad” at this time, have been shown in video distributed by the group who is holding them captive.
Where does the public responsibility end and the corporate/shareholder responsibility begin for a news outlet? Is a network who doesn’t report on a story in a timely manner performing a dereliction of their duties towards their viewers and ownership, or should this not matter?
