Posted by Ritch on March 3, 2003, at 23:57:47
In reply to Re: Political Stuff re BIG Media, posted by noa on March 3, 2003, at 19:34:59
> Actually, the one TV news program where you do hear about other news is the News Hour on PBS. And I do find that NPR All Things Considered gives me more comprehensive news --more of all the news and more in depth, than other news programs. It was NPR where I did hear something about this issue.
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> I was just thinking of writing to complain to local tv news because they have stopped doing local reporting. Mostly, they show feeds from the network, which only get repeated on the national news! Practically the only time we see a lot of the reporters is during weather events. And at those times, they are not doing anything resembling journalism--it is simply information and not news. They mostly stand out in the cold (rain/wind, etc.) and repeat the same thing over and over and over. Their reportage consists of stupid man-on-the-street interviews about the weather, like we had never seen weather before. All other news gets pushed aside for this monotonous repetition. Arrgghh.
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> The newspaper does offer more info, but I have to admit I tend to be lazy and read the paper in depth way too infrequently.
I get nearly all my news from the BBC World Service online nowadays! I work evenings and I do miss "All Things Considered" on NPR in the afternoons. I tune out all the domestic TV cable channel tabloid news completely! We complain about dictators in other countries controlling the press-well what about money interests controlling the news? Not so much the CONTENT, but *LACK* of content......?
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