What do you think about News programming in general?

[Alpha and Omega]

Does anyone really even watch much news programming anymore? Lately, I've decided to pass on it. It's one continually depressive segment after another.

I don't mind some of MSNBC (Brian Williams was a good replacement for Brokaw). BBC world news on MPT is also a pretty good program imo. Cnn has gone downhill completely, though they're not as one-sided as Fox, and I seem to find more common sense in the critical reasonings of Stewart and Colbert.

Do you think that serious journalism will ever make a resurgence, or will we just see the state of the media descend further and further?

So, how bad is it in your opinion?

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

i like local news station, the rest are ****in morons.

 

[Brian2887]

News is nothing more than sensationalist attempts at grabbing high ratings.

 

[November Rain]

I generally don't watch the news, it's supposed to be subjective and not really do anything except for provide the viewers with facts to which they can come to their own ideas about.

unfortunately it seems that a lot of news tends to have a bias towards getting across an overall opinion of what they wish for their readers to think.

I mean if what i was saying was wrong, wouldn't there only really be need for one news paper/channel per state/region since the other ones would simply be repeating what's already been said?

i guess when anything (even telling facts) becomes a business one has to try and sell their stories and that generally menas putting a slant on it.

even at the cost of perhaps watching and taking pics of people being excuted and fighting (as apposed to trying to perhaps rectify and help by standers) in order to get the award winning footage that would boost the sales of their chanel/paper.


it would be nice to try and avoid the news altogether but that brings its own problems by making people naiive and oblivious to what is really happening in the world around them.

I would say this, more news needs to be broadcast about what's happening in poor countries around the world, the fact that the issues are constant doesn't make them any less real. Unfortunately the nes is always chasing the next big scare and easily can drop every other issue in the world for it making it seem like nothing else on the planet warrants that importancy.

c'est la vie i suppose...

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

Does anyone really even watch much news programming anymore? Lately, I've decided to pass on it. It's one continually depressive segment after another.

I don't mind some of MSNBC (Brian Williams was a good replacement for Brokaw). BBC world news on MPT is also a pretty good program imo. Cnn has gone downhill completely, though they're not as one-sided as Fox, and I seem to find more common sense in the critical reasonings of Stewart and Colbert.

Do you think that serious journalism will ever make a resurgence, or will we just see the state of the media descend further and further?

So, how bad is it in your opinion?

Fox News may be the most corrupt, uneducated, unsensical, down right peice of dog s**t broadcasting company of our time. First off is Bill O'Reilly, that scumbag. He is a bully, nothing more. Geraldo Rivera....enough said. Greta Van Sustren.....Nobody watches her. They are pure evil.

 

[Tangled Web]

I feel bad for you guys regarding local news. I live in the Los Angeles area and because of this, our local news has very good production values and our anchors sometimes go on to do bigger stuff (ex: Michael Buffer used to do the sports report for CBS 2.)
I've gone on vacation and other local news shows suck.

 

[Edd Extraordinaire]

The local news in Philly isn't so bad. ABC's anchors seem to be the best though.

 

[Tangled Web]

My ABC news is in HD.

 

[Sensi]

my local news the newscasters are so silly acting i cant stand to watch and all the others i wouldnt believe a word they say .i just need to see which political party they are for and i know immediately what their news will be..however i do tend to keep it on in the background when i am working .will it ever be strictly news again? maybe but not anytime soon

 

[Alpha and Omega]

will it ever be strictly news again?

I doubt it; it's more entertainment-oriented. Stories are more about sensationalized shock value as opposed to informative pieces.

unfortunately it seems that a lot of news tends to have a bias towards getting across an overall opinion of what they wish for their readers to think.

Good point. Lack or absence of objectivity annoys me also.

 

[Mee]

I get all my news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

 

[Daisy]

Does anyone really even watch much news programming anymore? Lately, I've decided to pass on it. It's one continually depressive segment after another.

I don't mind some of MSNBC (Brian Williams was a good replacement for Brokaw). BBC world news on MPT is also a pretty good program imo. Cnn has gone downhill completely, though they're not as one-sided as Fox, and I seem to find more common sense in the critical reasonings of Stewart and Colbert.

Do you think that serious journalism will ever make a resurgence, or will we just see the state of the media descend further and further?

So, how bad is it in your opinion?

I left the media during the OJ debacle. I thought it was about to hit its low point and would soon be rebounding... but I was wrong. It's only gotten worse.

With multiple media outlets competing for viewers and advertising dollars 24 hours a day... the media no longer reports what is newsworthy and what we as a society need to know... they 'create' news. The blow things out of proportion and make them more important than they really are.

One of the best examples of this is 'health' reporting. Look at 'bird flu' and all the 'hype' surrounding it. How many humans has it actually been passed onto? Less than 100? What was it doing topping the news and what were all the "how to keep your family safe" shows for? You likely have more risk of having a piano dropped on you than getting bird flu. And you sure as hell have a much better chance of dropping dead of a heart attack from sitting in front of the TV chomping on that big mac than getting bird flu.

People are never given an accurate assessment of their risk. The same is true with a lot of 'investigative' reporting... especially that focusing on 'consumer alerts and scams'.

There's also no information given about sources so that people can make up their own minds.

For example during the most recent Hezballah/Israel thing... we'd hear casualty figures where Israel said that x many Israeli soldiers (and occasionally Israeli citizens) were killed and then we'd here that x many civilians were killed in Lebanon (funny how we rarely, if ever, heard that Hezballah figheters were killed ). According to who? Hezballah? If that's the case, isn't it possible that some of the people they're calling civilians really weren't? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that there weren't any civilians killed in this conflict, but I want to know the source for the figures... because I think it's just possible that Hezballah might have an agenda that could be strengthened by 'fudging' on the definition of 'civilian'.

 

[Carter]

"Theres a toy that can kill your child. We'll tell you about it at 11."

**** them

 

[Kurosawa]

FOX News is just wretched. How anybody can actually take them seriously is beyond me. I guess there's more "rah-rah" conservatives than I thought.

All the news is too sensationalistic in my opinion. The only shows on any of the news channels I watch are Countdown With Keith Obermaan which is an entertainment show and the Situation Room on CNN. I do think Anderson Cooper is a pretty serious reporter. The ocassional story, like the videos that leaked out of North Korea, I do find compelling.

But yeah, the news is definately a downer, especially nowadays.

 

[Tsunulia]

I never watch the news anymore. I can't trust any of them since so many are paid off to lie.

 

[jaguarr]

News is nothing more than sensationalist attempts at grabbing high ratings.

I agree. It's less news and more opinion and political agenda than anything else, these days.

jag

 

[Tsunulia]

And what's with the Apocolypse reports these days I don't understand how people sitting around talking about random opinions of what they think might possibly happen is more important than what has already happened.

 

[Mr. Thing]

The British news is generally good. It does what it says on the tin. When I watch the American news like FOX or CNN it seems kinda...light.

 

[Darth Elektra]

I like MSNBC, CNN is ok. I dont like Fox.

 

[Fred_Fury]

Highly Exaggerated Bull****

 

[Speedball]

I get my news from Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart.
Everything else is just depressing as s***.
Truthiness!!!

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Not big on the NEWS(which is an acronym using the directions in case you didn't know )

 

[amazingfantasy15]

News these days is just fear mongering.

 

[Manic]

Televised news can kiss my ass. I don't care if it's Fox News or CNN. It's all crap. Anchors and pundits care more about themselves than the news they're reporting. When we're living in an age where a news network has to actually tell people that they're fair and balanced (thus placing self-promotion above the news itself), it's time to change the channel.

Also, no journalist should ever have to defend his/her integrity during a point/counter-point debate. When that happens, it implies that the people in charge of the show didn't care enough to establish said individual's integrity before placing them on the show (aiming for sensationalism), and that the pundit placing the other's integrity in question cares more about how well they themselves look on camera than the topic they're debating about.

I love the Daily Show and Colbert Report, but even they're slanted. The only difference is that both of those shows acknowledge that they're full of sh**, and try to provoke laughs from their audience's pre-conceived opinions.

 

[Tangled Web]

"Theres a toy that can kill your child. We'll tell you about it at 11."

**** them

I LOLed!