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Originally Posted by Captain Kawaii
I met very few smoking hotties. Most were music and film nerds. Some were hot but most not.
What killed journalism were the major corporations who stepped in and began to filter reality versus their agenda. Letterman used to joke about GE but it was more of a problem than even ol Dave would let on.
Corporate concept of do not offend anyone eventually filtered into TV and movies. Especially movies.
These days the control is more open. Hard news is gone and news about ponys and rabbits and the Kardashian skank celebrity TMZ scenes are taken for real news.
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When I was in my early 20's I wrote for a music magazine. It was a lot of fun and a crazy, cool job. At that time in the two cities I was splitting time between (Portland and Seattle) there were probably 30 major radio stations and like another 30 smaller stations. Most of them were independently owned. It was a huge controversy when one company wanted to own two stations in the same market.
Now almost all of these stations are own by the same 2 or 3 companies. The same can be said for newspapers and magazines. With that comes a corporate mentality and many of them want you to slant the work you do in a particular way. This hurts journalism badly. Another problem is that TV news is now a for profit enterprise. It wasn't too long ago that TV stations produced news understanding that they were going to lose money or maybe break even. They did it as a public service and didn't care about ratings. As the ratings game increased the news stations started competing for viewers. They worried less about breaking interesting stories and more about putting stuff on the air that will draw viewers. Hell, if you look at the major 24 hour news networks half of their programming is not pundits. They have stopped doing the news and now produce a show. They are really not much different than a sitcom or a TV drama.
It is sad. What saddens me more is that most people don't care.