....in your opinion
2007-02-26 06:37:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
insignificant news? All news is of value if nothing more then to observe trends and cause and effect. Weekafter repeat week of Hollywood news is silly and a waste of time. However watching events for both good and bad things that reoccur is important even if it looks like insignificant news.
Animal behavoir - global weather -even people behavoir seems to happen in sets and for underlying reasons. Listening to Media hype however is not really news and does dumb down people.
2007-02-26 06:56:00 · answer #1 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely yes - if we are talking about Americans who get all their news from TV - and maybe even if we are talking about Americans who try to keep up with multiple news sources besides TV, but just don't have time to track down all the information they should know. When a newscast only lasts 30 minutes, and 12 minutes of that is wasted on commercials, every minute should be devoted to important news. Viewers may receive a false impression that there is nothing important going on that day in their neighborhood, in their country, or even in the world, if they turn on a TV news show and see nothing but one story about a local crime, one traffic jam story, sports results, a story about some celebrity checking into rehab, and a kitten being rescued from a tree. Fortunately, many people are already aware of the day's news stories by the time the evening news comes on, through online headlines, radio news that they heard on their way to work, and maybe a newspaper they read. But even then, how many state and local government representatives are ever mentioned on TV news? How many proposed laws and regulations ever get mentioned on TV news either before they are voted on, when people have a chance to write to their representatives to give their opinions, or even after the law has been passed, when people should know what they are getting for their tax dollars and how their leaders are either protecting or abusing them this week? Vital changes take place in our world every day, and TV news never addresses some categories of those changes at all. To be frank, I rarely even bother with TV news anymore. It is practically worthless to me, and I suppose its dumbing-down is the reason for that.
2007-02-26 15:06:13 · answer #2 · answered by independent thinker and voter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, yes. I gave up on TV news a while back. It's also how many TV shows are structured - they keep repeating information over and over again. I begin to lose patience with the "broken record" narration. It's also hard to find programming that isn't "structured reality" either.
2007-02-26 14:50:31 · answer #3 · answered by loves easy tears 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yeah...I think so. When "news" of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears leads off national network news broadcasts, I think things have pretty much gone over the edge.
2007-02-26 14:45:59 · answer #4 · answered by clarity 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
2007-02-26 14:48:49 · answer #5 · answered by Lyn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should see the welsh news...if you think american news has insignificant stories...what about the biggest story the other day with us..lol..the biggest bag of chips( fries) made....
2007-02-26 14:50:39 · answer #6 · answered by elizabeth l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clarity is correct.
TV News has gone over the edge.
2007-02-26 19:42:22 · answer #7 · answered by fatsausage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. the news has become more entertainment than actual news.
i mean, do you really need 24 hr coverage on ana nicole's death? there is a war going on, and a genocide.
2007-02-26 14:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋