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Article: A Feeding Frenzy of flounders.(media regulation)(Transcript)
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- Quadrant
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- May 1, 2005
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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 ...