Have you adjusted to the 24 hour news cycle, basic cable and the internet? Technology has given us wonderful opportunity, we can access information in a matter of seconds. Even if that information is as accurate as David Patterson shooting free throws. Television, radio and the other forms of media are funneling "news" to us at an alarming rate of semi-accuracy. There are in my mind three types of "news" now. They are Fear Speculation And Voyeurism as you may have seen in the title. Let's break it down Jaworski style.
FEAR....
The news, especially the traditional newscast runs advertisements all day about toys that could kill your kid, cars that could kill you, perverts living in your living room and things of this nature. If this is really news then tell me this stuff now, I don't want to wait until 11 pm. Opie and Anthony talk about this all the time, and they are actually right, if something is that dangerous don't try get ratings just report the information. Channel 7 in Boston says they have the "most compelling newscast". Really the most compelling? Doesn't the news just tell what is happening or has happened? What are the other channels reporting, turtle races and county fairs? I don't understand, it seems flipping around at 11 pm the news is generally the same, 7 seems to be the same 4 and 5.
The other thing they do is hype stuff up like shark attacks or bears, or rip-tides. The things that people are all ready aware of. Oh wow sharks are dangerous, your kidding? People have this weird innate attachment to fear, and the news preys on it. I think they can even dictate the Stock Market with way they report on it's volatility. It must break their heart when hurricanes don't wipe out a city or the market goes up 500 points.
Speculation:
This too involves the stock market, and sports reporting mostly. Because pretty much anyone can get pretty much any information that sportcenter or espnews or moneymarket gives us off the internet. These channels now have so many hours of programming prognosticating instead of reporting. We have to listen sports reporters yell over each other about why Team A will beat Team B in Game C that isn't happening for 3 weeks. Then you flip over to cable news channels and some guy is yelling about how this option will rebound or this other will crash and really not have to be accountable for it at all. I just want these people to tell me what HAS happened and WHY. Not what WILL happen based on baseball games from 1983 or some trend during the depression.
Voyeurism:..
The worst, the basic channels now spend as much time if not more reporting on famous people. We have become a nation of obsessed, jealous, nosey idiots. Why does anyone care if Britney Spears crapped her pants in a Wal Mart? Is it to be in on the joke? Is it because we love to build someone up just so we can see that person fumble it all away? Anna Nicole Smith had ten times more press for her death than President Ford had for his just a few weeks later. This freak-show really is what we couldn't take ourselves from the idiot box for. The TV channels are partly to blame for this, playing off this entertainment as news. But it is just as much our own fault for being slave to celebrity.
Long story short I just want to put on the news and have someone shoot me straight, tell me how it is. I don't want compelling, intriguing or first. I want short, sweet, relevant and accurate. Not necessarily in that order.
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