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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)."

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  1. Re:Who the hell is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you fucking serious?

  2. Re:SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL, no idea why the isolation has happened, maybe it was always this way and the media darlings are becoming aware of this.

    Death

  3. Re:Who the hell is by pigiron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did he mean something to you?

  4. Re:Who the hell is by RLiegh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For the love of fucking GOD someone slap a +1 informative up on the parent post -I couldn't have put it better myself!

  5. Greg Louganus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am confused! Only FAGGOTTTTS have HIV how does it get to breat milk?
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  6. Re:i don't have a problem with the media by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you're an idiot or a troll, i can't decide which

  7. Re:Who the hell is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh crap that's funny! SO sorry i spent my last mod point earlier. baahaahahahahahaaa

  8. Re:Who the hell is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And you didn't, either.

  9. What's cool now? by rush22 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    00's popped collar wearing guido?