Page 88 Order Life the Movie from Amazon. Life the Movie Being noticed by the media requires an ever increasing level of volume and outrage. With their boat sinking from sight before cameras arrive, families drowning in a boating accident don't make the evening news. Firestone compared minimal media coverage of the Arkansas boating accident with Columbine shootings and other disasters. On the swiftly calculated sliding scale of death, accidents are assigned a news value based not on how many lives were lost, but on how and where they happened to die.
Cameras swing instead to capture a body falling from a school window.
The shot is played over and over again for twenty four hours. The body keeps falling. And the nation's psyche is saturated with pain, suffering, grief and fear. Goodman describes how cable channels were virtually trapped into providing nonstop coverage with little to report. In the most dramatic moment, a wounded student was helped from a second story window by two officers.