The Oakland Police tragedy was topic-A on Bay Area media outlets, from talk radio to all-news, to local TV and even sports stations. Nationwide, the story was picked up by virtually all news sites, including CNN, the NY Times print and on-line, and even the International Herald-Tribune.
KGO Radio's Ronn Owens opened his morning program with the story and devoted the entire hour with listener comments, many of them, emotional and quite stirring. All the lines were lit.
KCBS, the all-news station that was the first outlet to report the shootings on Saturday, went wire-to-wire, with an on-scene reporter immediately after the first reports. As the events Saturday became more ominous, the CBS station had correspondents at the hospital where the officers were taken, and two more at the site of the shootings. The late-night Police briefing was aired in it's entirety; to KCBS' credit, virtually all of it's programming Sunday was centered on the OPD tragedy.
Perhaps, the most comprehensive and BEST coverage was Fox affiliate KTVU, Channel 2, which interrupted local programming, as anchor Ken Wayne and on-scene reporters Mike Mibach and Ken Pritchett provided up-to-the-minute news in what could only be described as an obvious chaotic situation.
As the first news emerged that two officers had been gunned down, KTVU's cameramen were at the site and in chilling images, caught officers running with guns drawn down the street, and into the apartment building where the suspected gunman was hiding. One particularly eerie image was that of a young officer aiming a gun over his squad car; several other more sad pictures showed several police men with their heads down and one in particular, near tears.
Even all-sports KNBR morning host, Brian Murphy made note of the Oakland tragedy on the station's "Murph and 'Mac" show.
On the Internet, SFGate.com, the SF Chronicle's on-line outlet was littered with stories and the Oakland Tribune's "Inside Bay Area" provided detailed, comprehensive coverage as the tragic events unfolded.
Rich Lieberman
'03-23'09 10: 17 AM PST
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