What is a media emergency?
This is what ran through my mind this afternoon as I stood outside my office building watching two media vehicles (Observer and CVM to be specific) racing through New Kingston on their way to cover a fire at a nearby hotel.
The racing to the scene in itself was not that unusual. The blaring horns and flashing headlights was annoying but not a strange sight when a convoy of vehicles are heading somewhere.What I marvelled at was the fact that they were racing down the right-hand side of the road. Apparently their presence at the scene was more critical than that of the fire truck that had just forced its way down the left-side, sirens blowing to clear the traffic from its path.
Now I am a big supporter of the media and their freedom of speech. I do believe in the public’s right to know. However, I don’t know that the media has some emergency rights giving them free reign over the roads.
Now given the fact that they reached the hotel before the fire truck they were following, I do hope that they didn’t block the path of the truck and add to the emergency.
Right now I am feeling kindapissed off...
