| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (RebelWithanAK,)
Are you saying that CNN, ABC, or CBS don't have profit motives, time constraints, corporate backers, and a hope for the same viewer audience Fox News currently holds?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Absolutely they do. Whoever has the highest ratings gets copied in the hope of taking some of them away for themselves. I think it all started with Ted Turner. News is cheap. You don't have to pay for a newsworthy event, just be there and tape it. Then hire the same guy with the same set to report on it. Turner thought he could do that 24/7 and make a bucketful of money. The problem is overkill. Even an hour is enough for most of the people (or 30 min. for the BBC) so to keep the attention of the sheep you have to expand, inflate and give enough to cover all that time, but most news is really pretty mundane so they either concentrate on the sensationmal or make it sensational themselves, and then find a slant on the coverage to keep the viewers attention. At this time in our recent history it's either show biz or anything conservative. But if that changes they will change with it and all the while the people will still be underinformed and the real news under reported.
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |