How do you feel about this subject? Are you as a U.S. citizen happy with the way that news is being reported in the United States, especially with Television news reports? If not, what improvements need to be made?
Are you as tired as I am of the silly, mindless "Morning Zoo" formats on television and on the radio?
2006-08-25 15:24:42 · 12 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I don't watch the news for the simple reason that it's impossible to know exactly how many filters the information presented goes through and how much the truth has been altered before it finally reaches the TV screen. We in America hear more about foreign stories in hopes that it'll distract us from the problems we have here. Listen to how bad things are elsewhere, and maybe issues *we* have won't seem so bad.
And yup, the morning programs are pretty mindless, from what I recall.
2006-08-25 15:33:12 · answer #1 · answered by salihe66 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world is becoming a global economy and foreign news is becoming as important as national. Besides, do you really want to hear how the democrats think Bush is screwing up the country or how the republicans feel the democrats will ruin our national security? That is all that would be reported. I have found the best source of national news is some of the actual talk radio shows, not the mindless twaddle you also referred to, then I look it up on-line to get a non-biased view or at least the other sides story. I too am tired of t "regular" news.
2006-08-25 22:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it seems to me that a lot of world news is ignored because of sad/sensational but not exactly earth-shaking U.S. news. Yeah, a child brutally raped in California or a sixteen-car pileup in Pennsylvania might be the most important thing ever to the people involved, but it's happening someplace every day, and focusing on the sensational so much is kind of unhealthy. Look at all the stuff about that Karr creep who said he killed the kid in Colorado - was that really more important than what happens in other countries?
I've pretty much given up on TV news except PBS - it's faster to get what I want on the web, and I can skip the stuff that's just disgusting or lurid.
2006-09-02 14:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by Maple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question. Looks to me like news is a commodity, just like widgets. If you can't come up with something new on your own, you do a poll, and report it as news. Slow news day? No problem, just go back in the files and resurrect some sensational event and announce the "Anniversary" of this or that. Even better, just borrow and pass on whatever some "expert" says about anything. Once I flew from San Francisco to London. In SF, the news was that Americans are all fat and obese from eating fried foods, and isn't that horribly alarming! When I landed in London I learned that the English are all fat and obese from eating candy, and isn't that horribly alarming! Same story, same day, different venues...
Consumption of news is just like buying used cars-- shop everywhere, mistrust everything, and kick the tires often.
2006-08-25 22:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I noticed that too. That's why so many people I know think that the drama in the other countries are created to keep us from noticing all the terrible crap happening right here at home. But I think the real question is, Why do troops get to foreign countries to fight or help so much faster than they did to New Orleans?
2006-08-25 22:48:08 · answer #5 · answered by Kim D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is no such thing as a free press, reporters can make any story they like but once it gets back to the newspaper its the editor decides whether to print it, and he decides on whether to print it depending on his bosses interests and the the paper is owned by a conglomerate so the story can't effect them negatively even if it is a true story - TV news presenters don't create stories they just read them off an autocue
2006-09-02 22:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by mini prophet of fubar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, so I watch PBS news hour and BBC News in addition to local news. Good question.
2006-09-02 20:53:36 · answer #7 · answered by Rhonda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a US citizen - but I believe it has to do with the stranglehold your government apparently has on your media... It's the same here in Australia but not quite so prevelant.
2006-08-25 22:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by soulgirl76 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all about money...that's what it takes to put news correspondence reportors around the world...money...and the US spends its taxpayers money all around the world. So our news folks are following the money.
2006-09-02 13:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we don't want to no the bad happening in the u.s.. So we talk about everyone else.
2006-09-02 22:19:46 · answer #10 · answered by lamarcoolg 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋