I am not sure who's more to blame

I don't understand why some media outlets continually choose to cover non-stories and then insist on turning them into negative stories.

I currently disgusted with a CBC story that deals with student speculation about parking limitations at MUN even though a new 870 space parking structure that opened today.

Maybe the most troubling aspect of the story is that most of the student opinions are nothing more than speculation.  The students quoted in the story simply don't know if there will continue to be parking problems once the new structure opens or if it may actually alleviate parking congestion around campus because the facility just opened today.  And even if all parking problems aren't resolved with the addition of this structure, are things not better than they were yesterday?

The tone of the story is also troubling.  Instead of focusing on the fact that the university is actually trying to alleviate student and staff concerns about parking this story adopts a negative tone and doesn't even really acknowledge the improvement to the parking situation that will arise because of this structure, which one might have expected to be the primary focus of the story.

To some extent, the way the story is framed here it all feels a little circular.  Wouldn't the natural response to these student concerns be the construction of a few parking garage?

Oh, and another problem is reporting on a real story but omitting the context and the pertinent details so most people reading will think it's a non-story and miss the significance of the whole thing.

Recent CBC coverage of the Labrador City housing shortage has done a great job of this.  Today's story about changes to the social housing eligibility income cap does a particularly great job of painting only a partial picture of the situation.

A story yesterday about bus accidents in Halifax was infuriating because they went so far as to request information about each Metro Transit bus accidents but then failed to put the numbers in a context that would allow one to reasonably judge whether or not the accident rate was reasonable or not.  With just a little more work this could have been a great story, instead it was likely more harmful than helpful as it sowed seeds of confusion rather than seeds of clarity.