The news seems too fluffy to me . What do you think ?
2007-03-09 01:22:26 · 4 answers · asked by jsjmlj 5 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
It's become too competitive and it's about ratings and headlines and who can capture your attention and with what.
We're such an "information generation" that it can't be anything but this.
Just think if we shut off the tvs, computers and radios, we would actually have to focus on our immediate environment.
Isn't that a horrid thought?
2007-03-09 01:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When we demand it. The networks are just electronic used car salesman and they tell us what they think we want to hear and for sure there are many who want to hear certain things, hence we have whole channels dedicated to left or right news and then we religious channels who report from way out there. When the country is at war and the first story on network news (our trusted? sources) is Brittany's rehab and Nicole's overdose, then you know that we really need hard news if we are going to make intelligent decisions. Elections are beauty contests and reporters play right along because they think that is all we can handle. If you don't like have Clinton or Bush in the White House consider that news reporting is so shallow that we don't know much about anything until its too late. Biggest secret in today's pre election news: That the US went to war in Iraq on a vote to do so from a Dem Majority Congress. For all of the hate talk about Bush, why are we not demanding the resignations or impeachments of those who sent the troops there? Bush could not have done it without the Dem Congress voting for that. Are we stupid? Or does the media just not report that fact? Many of those who did that just got elected on an anti Iraqi war platform even though they are the ones who authorized the war. So you see news in the US is not much better than, or maybe even as good as, the old state news in the Soviet Union.
2007-03-09 09:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by Tom W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The goal of a news company is to make money.
The news will cover stories that do not offend their sponsors (the advertisements pay the channels).
The news will report on stories that appeal to the largest base of people--the lowest common denominator.
Add this up and you'll get news that reports on fluffy items that are easy to understand by the public.
This will change when one or more of these things happen:
a) the company desires to lose money
b) the American public is more concerned about "non-fluffy" items
c) the companies that pay the news channel for commercial spots won't be affected by what's covered in the news
2007-03-09 09:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When majority of the population decides that they want it.
Most people these days want either frivolous news or disasters.
2007-03-09 09:31:17 · answer #4 · answered by smelly pickles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋