Montanero:
The news media is a business, and they need to get good ratings to make money. To do that they present drama and controversy. TV news is more entertainment than information.
and...
Ireckon:
News is a business where advertisers are the clients. Above all else, news must be entertaining and simple to keep the attention of consumers who will buy the advertised products.
That's the hollow-headed, knee-jerk thinking of big business, with the usual short-term follow-through, resulting in...
I picked about 5 different local newspapers the other day. Are these things getting thin or what? I guess few people read newspapers anymore...
People don't trust the news sources, so they don't pay attention to them. So, to keep the advertising coming in, they regress to news bytes on dimwitted, drunken/drugged, promiscuous pseudo-celebrities whose names a thinking person wouldn't recognize, catering only to the people whose reading consists of the National Inquirer and comic books.
In the words of a young boy from Arkansas: whoopeedooooodoooo! With the emphasis on the doo-doo.
Sue
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