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News or Infomercial?

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<font color=3333ff>So I turned on the TV, and since there is nothing I wanted to see on 7 (sports), I started at Ch. 2 and was going to flip channels til I found something while I ate some food.

Started at 2 and started flipping, but I thought 2 had a commercial on til I saw the news bug on the bottom corner. So I stopped and watched the report. They were doing a segment on what vaccuum cleaner works the best for the price.

Is this really newsworthy? I think it's really a commercial. I think that there is much more things to talk about than a vaccuum. What's really wrong with American news? So much fast and hype. They say this is what we want. Well is it? I think that after the first 10 minutes of a newscast, besides the weather and sports, I could do without it.

What about you?
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If you watch the Channel 2 10 o'clock news on weekends these days, you'll usually see nothing but blood and guts reporting along with the soft stuff you mentioned. By the way, could you tell whether the piece was locally produced or just a local jock er reporter doing the voice overs?

Channel 2 is not alone. They all do it.
 
> If you watch the Channel 2 10 o'clock news on weekends these
> days, you'll usually see nothing but blood and guts
> reporting along with the soft stuff you mentioned. By the
> way, could you tell whether the piece was locally produced
> or just a local jock er reporter doing the voice overs?
>
> Channel 2 is not alone. They all do it.
>
Ratings count. I can't do nothing about Iraq, and at least 10 other places, TV, Radio, Internet, cable give me basically the same coverage.

Why not tune into a channel that will help me avoid spending money on a product that won't work well?<P ID="signature">______________
Once I figured out the meaning of life....Then I forgot to write it down.</P>
 
I can not share your views on "giving the public what they want".

I have a problem covering two murders, a rape and a child drowning only and saying that is news. Most were with the same cliched shots of sobbing parents or friends and a shot of the crime scene. It looked like two were free lance pieces. That series of stories were followed by a puff piece.

While I can understand focusing on local and state news vs national and world, NO NEWS in 30 minutes?

Unless it was a neighbor or friend, these tragedies do not affect you or me. What the Governor or Mayor does or says will hit closer to home.

If the 30 minute segment does not carry any local, state, national or world newstories is this a news program or some kind of tabloid that appeals to ones puriant interests, much like a gawker at a traffic accident. Should it be called news? I wonder what the station logs say it is?
 
Could this have been a VNR (Video News Release) put out by the publishers of Consumer Reports??
 
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