The hardworking staff was interviewed on BBC radio yesterday (audio here at 28:00) about the media rumpus around PyroPastor Terry Jones and his Koran-again, off-again threat to burn multiple copies of Islam’s Holy Book.
Beeb presenter Fergus Nicoll was gobsmacked that the U.S. news media were giving so much play to a (formerly) insignificant crank, although I believe he’d concede that the British news media aren’t exactly what you’d call restrained.
(No American news organizations, after all, have hacked into Terry Jones’s voicemails. Yet.)
But the implication was that the Brits wouldn’t chase this story, and the hardworking staff is inclined to give Fergus the benefit of the doubt in this case.
Meanwhile, the only thing more pathetic than the media slutathon currently underway (Donald Trump? The vile Westboro Baptist Church?) is the inevitable media regretathon, which has started midstream.
Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role
Media to Terry Jones: You used us!
Ya think?
Campaign Outsider 
I posted this over at “Beat the Press” and thought I’d crosspost it here as well.
I think the biggest loser in all of this is Islam and The Koran itself. Despite the absurdity of the situation, I thought media could’ve turned this into a teachable moment.
How many Americans really know what Islam is all about? How many Americans have really read The Koran? How many Americans know there is practically an entire chapter in the Koran devoted to the Virgin Mary? And the most obvious question …. how many Americans have been to a mosque? I know these are basic questions. But instead of passing along what this nitwit is saying, the media could’ve put the issue itself into some kind of meaningful context that would serve the public interest. Instead the media fed the sensationalism beast and consumers of information lost in all of this.