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Spike89
(1,569 posts)News is one thing, and television really is a poor medium for most news content. I remember when CNN was new and seriously a news channel (at least most of the time)--it was boring as hell and hemorraging money at least until a war would flair up.
News is currently found in newspapers and just about no where else. OK, television can be fantastic for certain types of news, i.e., scheduled events, wars, the aftermath of natural disasters. The Internet is really becoming a pretty decent place to find the news, but basically it gets the vast majority of its news from newspaper reporters and television journalists. How many true online sites pay real reporters?
Even though Fox News itself points out regularly that most of its programming is not news but is intended as entertainment (as does Rush Lindbaugh)...almost everyone ignores the fact. It isn't about ideology (Rachel and Keith are entertainers too). The entire pundit-driven mess is doing nothing but harming this country.
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