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Cable "News" outlets

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kyscott

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I sure wish these cable TV channels that are supposed to be about news, would actually do NEWS. Working in the office, I like to keep the TV on, but CNN likes to attack Republicans while Fox News Channel is too busy running titillating stories like the school yard beating videos. And don't even get me started on the air head banter. I guess there is always the Weather Channel.
 
Agreed about The Weather Channel. NBC Weather Plus is so-so, but at least I can get a radar from them more often and it's free over-the-air as well.
 
I am a fan of both CNNH and MSNBC at breakfast time (PDT at the moment so "back east" news has had a chance to break before I get up).

I don't watch CNN or the major network morning "news" shows for the same reason I don't watch local TV news - too many fluff pieces and "breaking news" stories about a warehouse fire or school bus accident 2,000 miles away.

Cable news has apparently gone the same way as the local stations and covers the easy, graphic and sensational stuff basically ignoring anything that would take over 1 minute to cover in depth.

Seems if you want to stay informed you still need to read it, not watch it.
 
landtuna said:
Cable news has apparently gone the same way as the local stations and covers the easy, graphic and sensational stuff basically ignoring anything that would take over 1 minute to cover in depth.
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Never truer words spoken. No wonder many American's can't locate the United Kingdom on a map (for example). Media is dumbing us down.
 
landtuna said:
I am a fan of both CNNH and MSNBC at breakfast time (PDT at the moment so "back east" news has had a chance to break before I get up).
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Crap, I keep forgetting about MSNBC. I may have to check them out tomorrow.

I don't watch CNN or the major network morning "news" shows for the same reason I don't watch local TV news - too many fluff pieces and "breaking news" stories about a warehouse fire or school bus accident 2,000 miles away.
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Here's one for you. School bus has an accident....local station breaks into programming to go wall to wall coverage of the accident...even had the flippin chopper up in the air. There was one, small problem..........

SCHOOL WAS OUT FOR SPRING BREAK!!

I kid you not, a couple of years ago a school bus here in Louisville was rear ended by a dump truck. The bus driver suffered minor injuries but you would have thought the Pope-mobile had crashed in turn three! They were so hot to jump on the story they failed to realize that there were no friggin' kids in the damn bus! Once it dawned on them the bus was just going to the shop for maintainance and was empty they could not let it go for another 45 minutes.

And don't even get me started on the number of live shots in front of the ONLY building in Louisville that suffered some damage after our earthquake. The damage was a small pile of bricks on the sidewalk that had fallen off the wall.
 
On DCRTV.com someone in the mailbag said that they knew of a few local TV stations that will no longer cover funerals of those servicemen who died in Iraq unless Shirley Phelps is there with her kids to preform their so-called "religious serivce", well protesting of course.

I believe it !!

Last time I saw a funeral on TV about someone who died in Iraq, the camera crew were more interested in showing Phelps and those signs than anything else at the the funeral.

Sad !!!
 
Speaking of fluff, here's the granddaddy of them all. On this morning's Morning Express on Headline News, one of the story pieces was a woman's 20th anniversary wedding ring that accidently went down the toilet and the pipe cleaner guy had to come and fish it out. It was origianlly from WKRC Cincinatti. Yeah, Al Quieda is killing our servicemen and tornadoes are reaking havoc across the U.S. oooooh I'm so scared of a wedding ring that got flushed down the lou.
 
The news is there for ratings, not for news anymore. Reporters are more likely to cover a "story" they learned about from a press release than from monitoring a police radio or digging around city hall.
I have always taken "Freedom of the Press" seriously, an integral part of our democracy, but with whats passing for news these days, I believe, has put that right in jeopardy. How can anyone seriously defend a press that spends more time on the Paris Hiltons of the world than explaining what is really happening in Iraq, or giving us an intelligent report on why gas prices are so high, or how the mortgage industry is falling apart.

Typical report. "Gas prices are up 16 cents in the past 2 weeks." Now shots of prices outside a gas station, now a shot of cars filling up. Then we go to the interview segment "how are you coping" and talk to a few drivers that really have nothing to say. Then the reporter (excuse me, the person on camera) tells us they dont' know how high the price will go.. Then maybe stock footage of some "expert" saying almost nothing because the networks are convinced we can't handle anything too complicated, then back to the smiling on camera person to wrap it up

Its not news, its INFOTAINMENT, and (forgive the soapbox) I believe it is weakening our democracy.

BBC World News seems to be the last place to get actual news on TV. ON to the internets......
 
Intelligent people don't watch the cable "news" networks, or the local TV news for that matter. It's a shame it has come to this.....
 
To hell with all of it, I'm watching Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN.
 
As someone who worked in news for 30 years, I agree with the majority of the posters concerning the "dumbing down" of news.

Personally I don't watch morning Cable TV or local television news because it isn't news, instead its either fluff, features or "happy talk".

Sorry if my former colleagues are not pleased with my comments, but it is my honest opinion.
 
fortmill said:
Intelligent people don't watch the cable "news" networks, or the local TV news for that matter. It's a shame it has come to this.....
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I have quit watching the local news except for weather and sports. Not so much the fluff on the local news, but it seems all they cover is who got shot in Birmingham today. If it's not fluff, it's who got shot, super preppy or super depressing. I'm glad there are still some journalists out there who care about the integrity of news, such as Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper.
 
kyscott said:
To hell with all of it, I'm watching Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN.
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I'm with you. I watch Mike and Mike in the morning now. Heck, I don't even watch The Weather Channel much anymore because it has become more fluff than real meteorologists who know their stuff. It seems the only smart meteorologist there is Dr. Greg Forbes. At least when The Weather Channel ran specials once in awhile, such as Target Tornado or The Chase, at least they were educational and scientific rather than eye candy or liberal propoganda.
 
jsu5381m said:
fortmill said:
Intelligent people don't watch the cable "news" networks, or the local TV news for that matter. It's a shame it has come to this.....
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I have quit watching the local news except for weather and sports. Not so much the fluff on the local news, but it seems all they cover is who got shot in Birmingham today. If it's not fluff, it's who got shot, super preppy or super depressing. I'm glad there are still some journalists out there who care about the integrity of news, such as Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper.
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Wolf Blitzer? Are you kidding? That "Situation Room" is the poster child of everything's wrong with cable news. I get dizzy watching that show! I'm not questioning his integrity, but whoever came up with that show has a lot of explaining to do.
 
A bit off topic, I was curious as to whether MTV News has always been dumbed down, or whether MTV News actually had any integrity once like the network. I am not old enough to remember when MTV played music videos, but how has MTV News changed since Kurt Loder reported on the suicide of Kurt Cobain?
 
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