With all the cable news that's available to us 24/7, do you feel it's too much? We need to know the news, sure, but I mean do you think that some of the stories are carried much too long? Or is so much coverage of the same issue necessary? For me, it's split. For something like 9-11 or Katrina, I wanted to have all the facts I could get ahold of... other times it seems way too much.
Katharina, Do you remember the beginning of CNN? They ran 30 minutes of news and updated the stories as needed every half hour. Now they run news shows and commentary as though it were factual. It's because of this that people have started thinking that their emotions are as valid as facts in deciding issues. I think we need more factual news and less fluff.
I don't remember that, no... they've always just "been there" as far back as I can remember. More factual news would be refreshing... absolutely!
It's not that there's too much news on the TV, there's too much fluff on the news. I like cute doggies as much as the next news junkie, but when I'm waiting on the headlines, I don't want to know. Other wastes on the news are the "feel good stories" that tell us "how we're feeling" about something, and editorialism disguised as news stories.
Fluff... very true. I happen to like the feel-good stories because who wants to hear the horrible dark and depressing stuff all the time? I can't take it but I agree about the editorialism 100%... NOT necessary and should be kept for the Sunday morning shows that deal with those types of things.
I have to limit the amount of news I watch, these days. My irritation over obvious stupidity is probably raising my blood pressure.
I have often thought this same thing. The spin involved on ALL sides is ludicrous and I just got tired of it. I used to start every day with at least 30 minutes or an hour of the news headlines while I was doing housework and getting ready for the day but I don't even turn it on any longer. I get breaking news headlines in email so I wouldn't miss anything big.
I think we have too much of the wrong type of news. Have you ever seen how different world news is when you watch a European or British news program, and then compare it to what most people see as world news in the USA?
Are you referring to the spin, SageMother... and being told what to think and how to feel according to which network or cable news we're watching? Or something else?
The limited scope of information, selected to keep us all mooing in the same key is what I was thinking about. World news for US citizens excludes most of the world.
Yes, you're right about that... and it's not just one network or cable news program doing it. They all do it, they just select different platforms and different agendas. The spin is just as bad whether left, right, or smack dab in the middle. Each side will argue that's not true, but I've studied it for about a decade now and it certainly is true. I think we'd all be wise to watch BOTH agendas but then also add some *real* world news maybe from a foreign newspaper site online.
