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So I’m flipping through the morning’s news and snark on my Google Reader, and I see this, from CNN’s Top Stories feed:
Seriously speaking though, when a new organization that tries to sell itself as serious gets into this nonsense, it’s all gone out the window.
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These days, when any sort of news happens, our news organizations go utterly bananas with the wall-to-wall coverage. For example, tonight there was a steam pipe explosion near Grand Central in the City. Yes, this is serious news. A lot of people were hurt, at least one person was killed, and there was a lot of damage done. Fine, but do we need all the New York networks sitting on the air for like three hours talking about it, especially when there’s no new information about it?
These things are always the same. Some big event happens. They cut into whatever’s on and announce it. They’ll then proceed to show the same 30 seconds of spliced camera footage over and over and over again and talk about the same crap over and over. Seriously, it’s tiring.
And that’s to say nothing of the cable news networks, which have turned this into an art form. It’s kind of sad to see what CNN has become. Remember when CNN had actual journalistic integrity? It’s hard to believe that the network that revolutionized the news industry by broadcasting from the heart of Baghdad at the start of the Gulf War has come to this. These days, if there’s a missing blonde, or a crazy person with a gun, or something like that, you can count on CNN to be on that with wall to wall coverage. The important news? Well, maybe they’ll get their talking heads on that one for their punditry shows in the PM.
It really is sad to see what has become of our broadcast media.
