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shortbus

shortbus

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cmartinez said:
Sadly, journalism is an almost extinct line of work...
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Depend on where you look/watch. Some cable news channels really are still news, they actually talk to the person they report on, without a spin. But Fox is the worst, from 8PM on it's pure opinion/propaganda no news. One side can do no wrong and the other side can do no right.
 
SamR

SamR

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Sadly, the days of Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, and even Tom Brokaw are long gone. When CNN and "The Mouth of The South" Ted Turner came along, news became more about reality TV and less about professional journalism.
 
MrSalts

MrSalts

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SamR said:
Sadly, the days of Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, and even Tom Brokaw are long gone. When CNN and "The Mouth of The South" Ted Turner came along, news became more about reality TV and less about professional journalism.
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Did it? Is that how you remember it? Look it up, CNN followed the same format as the three big broadcast networks for many years after it started and kept doing the same until he sold it in 1996.

I think the end of journalism came when Roger Ailes left MSNBC to develop the entertainment division of FoxNews. Yes, you heard that correctly, the entertainment division of a news division. Weird, right?

With this new format, a news division doesn't have to do all of that expensive editing or fact checking. They can put a talking head on the screen who is allowed to babble, make up stories, make up "facts" and do a profitable program - high viewership because of the WWF format of heel and hero coupled with very small staff of writers (story tellers).

The other networks had to keep up but never really became as profitable as Fox because they wouldn't let the facts completely fall by the wayside.

The smartest thing Fox ever did is create the phrase, "main stream media" so they can make their audience believe the made-up facts of the Fox Entertainment division more plausible than the actual video clips of real politicians speaking real words carried on other networks.
 
SamR

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One of the first things CNN did was nonstop live coverage of a child named Jessica McClure who fell into a well pipe in Midland, Texas. Took 58 hours to get the kid out. That was pure reality TV and probably only outdone by the live coverage of the slow chase of OJ's white Bronco.
 
MrSalts

MrSalts

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SamR said:
One of the first things CNN did was nonstop live coverage of a child named Jessica McClure who fell into a well pipe in Midland, Texas. Took 58 hours to get the kid out. That was pure reality TV and probably only outdone by the live coverage of the slow chase of OJ's white Bronco.
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Agree. But, that version of Reality TV is nothing like the mock reality TV of Survivor, Big Brother or the most scripted of all "reality" TV shows, "The Apprentice" with what's-his-name.
 
SamR

SamR

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It was also nothing like real journalism, but its exhibitionism got viewers whose numbers in turn brought advertising dollars. Seems ole Teddy mighta learned something from PT Barnum...
 
nsaspook

nsaspook

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SamR said:
It was also nothing like real journalism, but its exhibitionism got viewers whose numbers in turn brought advertising dollars. Seems ole Teddy mighta learned something from PT Barnum...
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CNN was OK in the 80's-90's in my small book. They put their people in harms way. They were showing live news and recording history of military operations of the type we did decades before in some backwater.
 
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MrSalts

MrSalts

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SamR said:
It was also nothing like real journalism, but its exhibitionism got viewers whose numbers in turn brought advertising dollars. Seems ole Teddy mighta learned something from PT Barnum...
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I'd say they e been doing a pretty damn good job if you have to go all the way back to 1987 to complain, right?

Please circle the cameraman who worked for CNN.
 
nsaspook

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https://www.news5cleveland.com/news...d-cell-phones-crashes-into-house-in-mansfield
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Drone carrying marijuana, tobacco and cell phones crashes into house in Mansfield
Zehner was asked if someone may want to claim the drone, worth around $2,000.

"Oh, sure!" he said to the Ashland County Pictures Facebook page owner. "If someone wants to claim it, by all means contact the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, at (419) 524-2412 or better yet just stop by the Sheriff’s Office, at 597 Park Ave East, and I will personally help them fill out the paperwork to claim it."
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