why would this be a better world without CNN and all news media vanished today?

Question

how would the quality of life on earth improve if CNN and absolutely all news media 100% disappeared today?

Note: the question is only looking for hypathetical improvements and upgrades that would result. If you have another point of view - I acknowldge that and that is not what this question is asking for.

Answer 1

how would we know whats going on in the world if we didnt have the news? i dont see how it could improve anything.

Answer 2

It wouldn't. I would really miss CNN.

Now, since you say you will 'acknowledge' my question, although that is NOT what your question is about...I will give my opinion. Just because you can't stop me.

First of all, I like that you came up with this question. I'm not sure why you dislike the media, but whatever. It isn't my business.

If the media all disappeared today, we would be very uninformed. Misinformation is much better than no information. An uninformed nation is a dissaster waiting to happen. Look at all of those third world countries with no tv, or news. They are completely crap.

There is no way that lack of media would improve our lives. There is just no way.

Answer 3

CNN headline news was great when it started because Ted Turner had made a committment to just reporting events as they were occuring without in depth comment. When CNN changed hands it became just another news organization reporting opinions of their editors and adapting news stories to fit a personal value system. Since almost all news is reported in a negative slant, to shock us or cause us to react, it tends to make us try to form opinions or make decisions based on flawed input from CNN and others. After Gulf War One some news analysts from the BBC found that Saddam's advisors admitted that they were shocked that Bush One went to war when it appeared to them that the US people were 100 per cent against it. It is one example of a miscalculation that people made based on the perception they got from watching the news, and particularly CNN. They thought, based on seeing what was actually lopsided coverage of the miniscule anti war protests then that the people would overthrow Bush if he invaded overe Kuwaiit. How many people's lives were lost over that? Improvement? I am not sure if can be done this far down the road but it would be great to have some source of news that simply reports the events and does not then follow it up with commentary or opinions or hired consultants who of course are hired because they will agree with the prevailing editorial opinion of the network or they would not be there. 24 hour news has a chance to do that objectively by reporting breaking events without editorializing but does just the opposite now.

Answer 4

I certainly wouldn't miss CNN; I never watch it anyway. But certainly we would be in the dark about what's going on in the world if they all went away. But with the Internet we no longer have to rely upon only 3 or 4 networks and the local paper; we have the world news organizations to draw from. And any political filters placed upon the news become evident as we compare one source with another.

Answer 5

It's already starting to happen.Once, news used to be the province of journalists, cleared by editors who were under tough censorship rules imposed from above. Now, a woman in Bagdad, sitting in a coffee shop, witnesses a car bomb. She uses the video camera in her mobile phone to show the horrific aftermath of the dead and dying and sends it via her web page, around the world in seconds. The news media may already have stepped into the first chills of an ice age that will see people, you and I reporting news and not just receiving it. One positive result would be instead of them saying : This is the news - don't read about it ! Instead, they will be forced to present accurately and fairly.

Answer 6

It would all depend on how people chose to react...history has reflected years ago, if you wanted the news you talked to your neighbors, wrote your distant relatives or went into town or attended church to keep up with the community. Most people today don't even know their neighbors. I highly doubt we can travel back in time, but I do believe that times are definitely changing and rapidly. This was a terrific question!

Answer 7

If all of those propaganda shows masquerading as news (i.e. Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, etc.) faded off into the abyss, we would be more able to focus on the issues at hand, and not who's talking about them. Ever watch an entire episode of Hannity & Colmes? You spend so much time deciding who you'd rather kill that you can barely think about what actually matters!

Answer 8

It wouldn't improve at all. It would get dramatically worse, very quickly. We already have a President using signing statements to grab more power than the Constitution permits him. We need stronger, more independent news media to avoid the destruction of our Democracy.

Answer 9

No, never. A single international language might decimate international way of existence, get rid of industries, and value an unfathomable quantity of money and time. to not point out, the question of what language may be chosen (Mandarin is, regardless of each little thing, the main spoken language).

Answer 10

Many people assume that the world has somehow changed...became worse somehow...when in reality is is just that the media allows us to see more destruction than in the past. It also gives a link to our world that maybe we shouldn't release...Iraq, etc....

Answer 11

I think CNN is the only news that anyone should count on. The rest could go and it would be better.....