TV News
The news is as bad as the newspaper. So much advertising. But to make it worse, the news constantly teases the same stories throughout a half hour wasting time.
I have yet to find anyone who is interested in the weather beyond what is going to happen in the next few days. Shut the hell up about the fronts and pressure systems. If you want to keep me interested in the weather show tornadoes and blizzards.
Even worse is where they tease a 30 second story at 6pm for the 11pm news. I understand what they are doing and why but so do so many others. It loses effectiveness. They need to rework it and quit dumbing everything down. And then maybe I will come back and watch instead of getting everything off of rss feeds.
The world has changed in providing news. TV news used to be the quickest medium in how we found out about current events. Then the next day, we could get more details in the newspaper.
But we live in an online world now. I’ve yet to hear about something first on TV before I read about it on the Net anymore. I can even watch live video on the Net now. Why wait until 6pm or 11pm to hear about something that’s happening now when I can find out what’s going on as it’s happening?
And what about those so-called news channels? They tend to have a difficult time delineating between fact and opinion nowadays.
gamefacepdx
August 15, 2007