Does anyone report the news anymore?

[journalist3072]

So I'm watching NBC Nightly "News."

And they get around to the subject of Bush's press conference today.

But it was all about how jovial and good-natured he was with the press; how he seemed to be in such a better mood, yada yada yada.

Not once during this segment, did they discuss the substance of the press conference. Not what he said regarding Iraq. Not his views on Guantanamo.

If anyone wants to know what was discussed at the press conference today, they sure wouldn't find out from Brian Williams.

So I guess all Bush has to do to keep the press from reporting the news, is toss around a few nicknames to them, and pretend like he actually cares about them.

Is this what we have been reduced to in our country? I'm sad for us.

[msongs]

1. the content is always lies, and media ho's don't call him on it soooo...

nothing to report content wise.

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2. You have to go to foreign media to get the news and the truth

Pretty fucking sad, but it's been that way at least since Reagan, if not longer than that.

Yep, if you want to know what's going on in the world, you can't use the American media cuz we don't fucking care, so you have to go to foreign media. If you want to know what's happening in America, you would think that American media would be the obvious choice, since we're not covering foreign stuff we must be spending all our time on domestic stuff, right? But no, for American news you still have to go to foreign media.

If you want propaganda or reporting that doesn't actually offer any information, then go American.

[journalist3072]

4. Sadly you are correct

I get more information and news by listening to Radio Canada International, Radio Netherlands and Radio Havana Cuba on my shortwave radio, than I do checking out America media.

[GOPisEvil]

3. No. Ever since corporations demanded that news be profitable,

it's been more fluff than news.

[Kutjara]

5. It's been the trend for awhile now.

News used to be the reporting of facts. Today, it's the reporting of feelings.

Compare Edward Murrow's broadcasts from the rooftops of London during the Blitz to reporting of the WTC collapse. The former was gritty, moment by moment reportage of the waves of bombers, the explosions, the fires, the deafening cacaphony or war. The latter was a bunch of clowns sitting around CNN Center crying and telling everyone how awful they felt.

The first instinct of a modern TV or radio journalist is to capture the 'emotion' of an event. That's why you have those boneheaded reports where a reporter sticks a microphone in the face of the latest disaster victim and says "so, how did you feel when your house blew away with your family inside?" "Oh, just fucking swell!"

Now I see on my local news affiliates here in LA, the newscasters have taken to dancing and jiving away to the theme music at every ad break. Often this 'feel good' bullshit happens immediately after they've reported on the latest gang killing or traffic death. Mmmm, good vibrations indeed. They don't seem to realize that it makes them look like a bunch of psychopaths.

News is entertainment now, nothing more. It's just another casualty of the soapoperafication of modern life. If everyone isn't running around talking about their 'feelings' every hour of the day, then there must be something wrong with them.

[nealmhughes]

6. I read the Guardian online.

It has more real US news than any US paper. I get a lot from Democracy Now, also.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I totally swore off the corporate whore media the day after the '04

"election" night coverage. I watched briefly during Hurricane Katrina (CNN) and haven't watched since. I rely on Al Gore's "internet" for my news source, and mostly Democratic Underground. :bounce: :woohoo:

[Immad2]

8. The only one worth watching is Keith Olbermann!

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. The vast majority of Americans - intellectually lazy, incurious, isolated

- don't want the news. They don't care about the truth. They just want the world to fit into their nice safe belief system. In fact, one could be surprised that the idiot's approval rating is as low as it is, since so much of this country is probably just like him! We are screwed!