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What's Wrong With the TV News
MBCook writes "Technology Review has a fantastic seven page piece titled "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by former Dateline correspondent John Hockenberry. In it he discusses how NBC (and the networks at large) has missed and wasted opportunities brought by the Internet; and how they work to hard to get viewers at the expense of actual news. The story describes various events such as turning down a report on who al-Qaeda is for a reality show about firefighters, having to tie a story about a radical student group into American Dreams, and the failure to cover events like Kurt Cobain suicide (except as an Andy Rooney complaint piece)."
This is true of life in general, not just the TV news.
People on Slashdot don't have conversations.
Even the more liberal ones like Jon Stewart use their airtime to make political points
Uh, "even"? That applies to basically every mainstream newssource around.
I don't expect that we'll see a more empathetic viewpoint on major network television before Bush is out of office.
Oh, I see, you've caught the BDS. Never mind. Could you please go to the other room, while the adults have a discussion?
More niggers, more problems.