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As someone who currently works ‘in the news’, try watching your local station instead of the national channels. They’re definitely not perfect either, but instead of being a nonstop barrage of Doom you frequently get puff pieces about new shops, upcoming events, or whatever else in your area might resonate more with you as an individual living in XYZ city. Just this morning my station had a story about an upcoming stage production of the Lion King, a fundraiser/gala thingy to raise money for people living with HIV, and an animal shelter announcing 50% off all adoptions for the month of October. Pretty sure all of this can be classified as “sponsored content” (they pay the station to have their topic presented) but again, it’s a welcome break from the endless doom-casting of FOX or MSN
Watching it makes me wanna get the news.
spoiler
Noose, get it? Ugh, I fucking suck at these sorry.
And if you do notice this administration will just tell you to stop complaining because you have to put up with it in order for them to destroy the evil of liberalism.
blame CNN.
They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.
There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.
Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they’d never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.
If you watch local news you’ll think the biggest story every day was the weather since they tell you about it 15 times in a 30 minute broadcast.
or crimes from 800lbs a way
“What radicalized you?”
Those 800lbs criminals I saw on the 24h news shows. I never thought they’d be a threat but now I’m afraid of the immigrants and transgender folk because one of them could be them 800lbs criminal type coming to eat my dogs and cats!
lol, I meant to type miles… I dont know how i ended up using lbs.
but you’ve already replied to it, so I’m not gonna fuck up your post by editing mine.
Oh I 100% knew what you meant. I just couldn’t refuse that wide open window of opportunity.
You right. its hilarious. Even from my perspective.
This post is about the 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbors which was an invention of Fox News, capitalizing on the fearful post-911 political environment.
There’s more stuff they could report on, but it either doesn’t advance their ideological agenda or doesn’t interest their audience and doesn’t get them clicks.
They call him “The News”
because he was always talking about who he slept with.
Peter Jennings was a real one.
Cronkite, too.
100%
Things were never the same after CNN made the news ticker permanent on 9/11/01
that’s what happens when billionaires buy the news and need it to turn a profit anyway
It’s never been that look at old news stations panic about the “crime crisis” or even late 19th century American newspapers about natives or even the “Chinese stealing” jobs.
it was always like that, what is blud talking about
Not before Reagan
Yeah until Reagan it was just normal factual news (don’t laugh!) and definitely no segregation, wars, red scare campaigns, random ass moral panics that news would help narrativize
I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m saying getting rid of the Fairness Doctrine was when it went mask-off
I, too, miss the dulcet tones of Peter Mansbridge. Man could be reporting on the worst thing ever but it was just calming to hear him. Sort of like, “yes, this is horrifying but stay calm and you’ll be okay”.
really hard not to notice rent going up 500%
Some neighbors deserve my hatred, mainly the ones I had in rural areas. Luckily my current neighbors seem great, I live in a city now.
