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A Feeding Frenzy of flounders.(media regulation)(Transcript)

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| May 01, 2005 | Flint, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LARRY SABATO (in Feeding Frenzy, 1991) says there is no activity more classically frenzied than the feeding of sharks, piranhas or bluefish whenever they encounter a wounded prey. They first search out weak, ill or injured targets, and on "locating them, each hunter moves in to gain a share of the kill, feeding not just off the victim but also off his fellow hunters, agitation ... [building] to a crescendo". Veteran reporters, he says, will recognise more media behaviour in this passage than they may care to acknowledge.

I think I can speak with some authority on feeding frenzies. But rather than it being something daunting, the media feeding frenzy has in my ...

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