Checkbook Journalism Responce

I think checkbook journalism is wrong.  Checkbook Journalism is a news organization pays for the footage and interviews, considered unethical.  NBC did checkbook journalism to get the story on the two sky diving planes hit each other.  NBC payed the skydivers to get exclusive interviews with them.

This is not the only time NBC used checkbook journalism.  NBC actually did it Two times in one week.  They did it for the Skydiving story and the Hannah Anderson story two.

Check book journalism response

    I think checkbook Journalism is wrong. Check book Journalism is when you pay someone for their story and they don't want share it all. I think it is not the best idea because you shouldn't force someone to tell a story when they don't want to tell. Also it just a bad idea because they can easily lie about the story also and then they get all the money and while you are paying for a story that is not true and why post it if it isn't true?      For an example the plane crashing in the skydivers and how everyone made it alive. It is a great thing to have everyone safe after a horrific accident, but is it just what they want to hear? They just also wanted the videos from the incident and that no other news station could use those because they bought it. In my opinion, it so not worth the money at all.

plane crash

  NBC's coverage on the two skydiving planes head on collision was excellent. But it was extremely lucky that no one was injured, and even luckier that they were wear go pros and we can see exactly how this happened. I believe this is wrong in many ways and can ruin the news. This can, in many ways make the news bias, because after the people who have the news sell the information they cannot go to any other broadcasting station. I also think that NBC might get a lot of negative vibes from this plane crash, especially because they used checkbook journalism. 

NBC has bought 2 stories in 4 days. They paid $100,000 for their interviews and information. The second thing they bought was a story about Hannah Anderson because it's an ongoing investigation about a kidnapping and murders. Also, it prohibits other news casters' freedoms by not allowing the information, either about the skydiver incident or the Hannah Anderson case, to be released to their competition. It seems to me that they are trying to create the great war between news mediums all over again. First it was newspapers, now it looks like digital media.

Respond question NBC

I think that it was kind of wrong for NBC to purchase that story because it could cloud the judgment or warp the story that the people gave to them. And the people could go into more detail and make the story different then what actually happened. Plus, because the people knew this would be such a big story since a news company bought it the people could have hyped it up and just wanted more fame for themselves.
I think that even though it was wrong for them to purchase a story, it is their money and if they really wanted to buy it why should we care? if it doesn't affect me then I don't really care. I say let NBC purchase whatever they want and we can choose if we think the story is reliable or not.

NBC Plane Crash

           That was a very interesting topic. NBC reverting to checkbook journalism is a tragic thing to hear. Why would a big news company like NBC buy the rights to a video? To be honest its kinda stupid. They already had the interviews of the skydivers. It is completely unethical, and this isn't NBC's first time doing checkbook journalism.
-Daniel Balcom

Checkbook Journalism

NBC's coverage on the two skydiving planes head on collision was excellent. However. NBC paid the survived divers for exclusive rights to the videos is not acceptable. Use of Checkbook Journalism is unethical and considered Taboo.

Sadly, this wasn't NBC's only attempt at this poor use of journalism. they also paid the family of the 16 year old who survived a kidnapping and attempted murder.

Why was NBC's checkbook journalism wrong.

Not only was it irrational, it was also unfair and criminal-like: not good for their reputation at all.  Not a wise move on their part at all, especially if they are focused on keeping their rep in tact.  If I were NBC, rather than risk my ego for a small story about airplane survivors, I would focus on something else to grab the audiences attention that doesn't involve the un-honest way of getting stories.  Going all that way to get a story will only end up wrecking you and you will have to spend a large amount of time repairing that trust with the audience.  It also makes the survivors look greedy to the average viewer since they "sold" their story, so it affects more than just NBC news.