If you haven't seen the movie "Good Night, And Good Luck", I suggest your do so. If you choose not to, then simply do some quick research via internet on Ed R. Murrow. After doing so, honestly ask yourself if broadcast journalism is better now or was it in Ed R. Murrow's day? When you decide, please leave your answer.
2006-12-19 07:18:06 · 9 answers · asked by jason_3685 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Broadcast journalism is crap now. There are very few, if any, journalists who delve deep into a story from a 360 degree view. Unfortunately, broadcast news has gone the way of the celebrity/MTV culture we live in, using quick soundbites and blurbs, without reporting the full and unbiased story. Reporters today (in America) don't ask tough questions to politicians. Isn't that the main purpose of the press? ...to question government policies and keep the public informed of what's really going on?
2006-12-19 07:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by RockC 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Ed Murrow's day, TV journalism was spanking new. The TV reporters played every story straightforward, objective, and only the facts, no opinions. Today's TV Journalism is nothing but entertainment. The reporters have strong opinions because passion plays well on TV. The bias is so obvious, it's entertaining. Yet the big difference, however, is public relations. PR has infiltrated TV News so much, it's really tough to tell the difference between Public Relations and Journalism. Both have such strong spins, they are now identical twins.
2006-12-19 08:43:21 · answer #2 · answered by mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't realize that we actually had TV news today. What passes for it would have made Edward R Murrow run screaming into a cave somewhere to hide for this mediocrity.
Murrow thought that this is what would become of broadcast news. How sad that he was right.
And I haven't yet seen the move. But I have read Murrow biographies.
2006-12-22 13:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends, in the 50's and 60's it was less influenced by advertisers, but the stories were slow to show up on TV, and then it was bad video. Today the advertisers have a big say over what is or isn't shown, or the network's don't criticize the government if they are trying to get licenses or exceptions to FCC rules or regulations, but the stories are delivered soon after an event in High Definition. I prefer the poor video and objective reporting, All the networks have undue influence but, the Fox News Network has the least objective reporting.
2016-05-22 21:40:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question.
I don't know what TV news was like back then (I did see "Good Night and Good Luck"). I'd love to see a random half-hour news broadcast from that era. Maybe the AFTRA museum here in Los Angeles could help me.
I've pretty much decided that modern media is not in the business of telling us what's important and telling it objectively. They're in the business of getting more viewers. That's why we keep hearing about Brittney Spears and the missing blond in Aruba and the Duke University Lacrosse team - sad but not important things.
It's not the media's fault. I think that's basically the way it's always been. Maybe nostalgia makes people assume the media was better in the past.
Reporters ask tough questions of politicians all the time. You can see that on C-SPAN sometimes, I think.
2006-12-19 07:44:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Better in Murrow's day, at least they did the right thing and it was a true story. "Journalism" today should be called what it is, propaganda. Journalists have no integrity today and neither do their editors/bosses. All anyone cares about today is money, never mind the truth.
2006-12-19 08:07:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen the movie and thought it was excellent as well.
I think the reporting was better than that it is today because they SALT the news the way they what to today. They get to personal now. The facts sometimes gets lost.
2006-12-19 08:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by gerardnolting 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was in sales it was known the guy with the pin profited from the transaction, like wise the news has the mic so they get to set America's agenda
2006-12-19 08:16:50 · answer #8 · answered by Ibredd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah broadcast journalism has gone to crap. I do wish we could hear news that really does matter.
2006-12-19 09:24:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋