2007-07-04 20:29:08 · 11 answers · asked by Henna P 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
TV networks and stations used to present news as a public service. They didn't make money on it, it was just for prestige.
Today, though, news is a money-maker. This is partly due to the consolidation of so many news outlets into just a few large corporations, which are more interested in profits than real news. So they do less actual reporting (which is expensive) and more of just repeating what govt. officials tell them. And they talk more about it (which is cheap).
I also blame the American people somewhat. We don't -want- to hear news. We want entertainment!
Americans especially don't want to hear international news. At the time of 9/11 there was only one American news outlet who even had an office in the Middle East, and that was National Public Radio, one of the smallest and poorest of our national news outlets.
Luckily, we can still get international news on the Internet. Nearly every country has an English-language news outlet that publishes on the Internet, so we can find out what is happening in the world. But you have to care enough to look for it.
2007-07-04 20:41:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not all American news is like that. There are places to go watch REAL news, there just happens to be a lot of entertainment shows/newspapers that people believe are news. Trust me, AFN news is DEFINATELY not entertainment, it's news.
2007-07-04 20:40:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I live in cali n our news in not based on entertainment. It has real life facts n news about whats going on in ma city. U R WRONG!
2007-07-04 20:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
entertainment news make more money than real facts and news.
2007-07-04 20:38:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our obsession with celebs and wacky news takes our mind off the doom-and-gloom of the real world.
Anna Nicole Smith, rise again!
2007-07-04 20:36:49 · answer #5 · answered by Illastic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to distract and brainwash. Keeping your eye off the prize and filling you full of lies is what the government has been all about ever since they infiltrated the media in the late 1940s.
2007-07-04 20:32:34 · answer #6 · answered by br@ini@c 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you want to see real news, watch cable FOX. They have less liberal bias and more news than anywhere else.
2007-07-04 21:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by Smartassawhip 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What news are you watching????? I would love to watch it too!!With all the bad stuff going on,i'm surprised to see this question.
2007-07-04 20:31:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the american govt prefers americans deaf dumb and blind to whats really going on in the world and to what extent the american govt is involved with illicit activities
2007-07-04 20:37:55 · answer #9 · answered by coolred38 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
thats just the big cities like new york city and cali not the others really
2007-07-04 20:31:06 · answer #10 · answered by hello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋