H & E
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I got tired of them telling me what they are going to tell me. I do not care if they are first or only. I get tired of hearing “IN HD” “Breaking News” is a joke. I rarely watch it. When I do I take it all with many grains of salt.
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5er4ever
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Seems that news has evolved to "the one that talks the loudest or most must be right!".
We need:
An all war channel.
An all bash the Gov channel.
An all subjected opinion channel (with talking heads - to argue).
An all weather channel (like the most popular rerun loop ever).
Most importantly all the news must publish these topics on the designated channels. That way we can hear/see a half dozen different versions of the same thing without turning the channel. That would be better than a half dozen of the same thing every 30 min (what we get now).
Then, package them all up into different bundles and charge for each. This way we can choose not to watch.
IMHO
ps.... please do not interrupt my movies with news. Pick on the sports channels (they like to debate trivia).
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Liriope
Sun City AZ 85351
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Fair and balanced news? What is that and where can one get it? Today, every station has an agenda and slant their news towards that agenda, right or left, depending on the station. Why do they do this? The answer, it gets ratings and the further to the right or left they are, the higher the ratings. They play to their core auditions and do not care about the rest.
Therefore, it is no longer news, just their slanted version of what happened today. The news stations of today are as polarized.
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E.Texan
Terrell, Tx (east of Dallas)
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I'd like to see a little truth instead of their opinions and agendas. That's why I don't watch News program anymore.
E.Texan
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hotpepperkid
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jambo101 wrote:What do people want from their news?
Just give me the news and put any political bias in the trash can.
Right on. Just the facts and not some news persons views which most of the the time they havent a clue what they are talking about. Most of us are of normal intellegance and fig out what happen without someone like Wolf Blitzer explaining his views
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Liriope
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Everyone says they want fair and balanced news reporting but that"frankly" is not true. If that were true, would some please explain to me how the news shows making the most negative, mostly totally untrue statements, are enjoying double digit viewer increases right now. The real truth, most people listen to news shows that "slant" their coverage to the views of the person watching them.
As Jack Nickelson said in a Few Good Men, "You don't want the truth, you cannot handle the truth". Viewers only want the "truth" as they "believe" it to be whether they are accurate or not. Criticize the networks all you want, but truthfully, they are giving their audience exactly what their audience wants. And that is what I find discouraging.
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dturm
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Those of you who have criticized the moderation of this thread are way off base. I've read the deleted posts and all were warranted. In fact the mods have shown a pretty great latitude in the posts still present.
To call any of the 24 hr. news networks news programing is a real stretch, they're entertainment.
Getting back to the OP, have you noticed a difference in local news when travelling in your RV?? Living in an large urban area, I get tired of the local news leading with bad sensational stories while in smaller local markets you tend to get personal interest stories with less sensation. Just my observation.
Doug
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Orion
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Of course you could always watch the BBC, which with no advertising at the source, is not ratings driven.
Even though the BBC would not do it, the popular press in Britain would often point out stories that would be seen around the world, but would be mysteriously missing from any US network.
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jlawless
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One big problem is that commentary passes for news and the "news" networks are filled with commentary and have very little actual news reports. Unfortunately, the commentary we hear is full of "mistatements" and irrational leaps of logic that are never corrected, or worse, repeated many times. Even the "breaking" news stories are full of guesses, hearsay, and overdramatization.
IMHO - lies are lies - they are not just biased opinions.
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chuckster11
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You could watch PBS's "News Hour" which is fairly good at covering both sides of an issue in a calm and professional manner. But still, the biases remain. In the selection of what a news show chooses to cover there is bias--they can make the base important and the important, base simply by the selection process.
This idea that any of us has ever lived in a time when "news was news" and was presented objectively is simply not correct--we haven't.
The "Red Scare" of the 50's with the rise of McCarthyism was largely the result of the media aiding and abetting, for profit, the fears of Americans and the demagoguery of McCarthy. Even "Uncle" Walter Kronkite did this nation no service when he purposely mislabeled the massive U.S. victory over the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive as an American defeat and thus giving a false impression about the offensive and our efforts in that war. Throughout our lifetime the news and news reporting has always had a slant and while there have been some notably ethical news reporters, they certainly were not and are not the norm.
Anytime there is a issue of importance in the news, you can bet that you are only getting one person's or an editorial staff's opinion of the issue--there is probably another side not being reported.
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