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Originally Posted by Robbie
The war in Libya is over.
The entire Middle East has ZERO problems and is completely peaceful.
Nobody is starving in any of the countries in Africa.
Everything is peachy keen down in Haiti.
There is no problem down in Mexico.
There isn't a big presidential campaign going on.
Now for one week each of the above all had their week where they were the ONLY thing happening in the world according to our U.S. news media.
But apparently for the last 72 hours or so...NOTHING has happened except for a relatively weak hurricane moving through New York. There were no other events anywhere in the world. And last weeks MOST IMPORTANT STORY IN THE WORLD in Libya? Completely forgotten, even though it is still not resolved.
What a joke our "news" has become. Watching CNN is like watching a re-run over and over and over...Even now I have it on in the background and the "news anchor" just asked a correspondent who is outside in the rain to "Walk us through the progression of the storm"...AS IF THEY HAVEN'T TRACKED IT INCH BY INCH FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS AND GAVE US EVERY POSSIBLE SCENARIO AND THEORY THAT THEY HAD...  |
In the beginning days of TV news...the news was basically provided as a public service as the news lost money for the networks. For years the networks tried to figure out a way for the news to make them money and finally found a winning formula. The formula is to make the news entertaining (through hype and a multiple of other methods) and much like any other entertaining show...when the viewers lose interest that show is canceled and a new show is tried out.
They constantly monitor viewership and if a news story loses the interest of the viewers they then move onto another story. The bottom line for TV news...is dollars/viewers...not if a story is an important story or not...and viewers are for the most part shallow people...and pretty easily manipulated.