What's Wrong With the TV News 536
MBCook writes "Technology Review has a fantastic seven page piece titled "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by former Dateline correspondent John Hockenberry. In it he discusses how NBC (and the networks at large) has missed and wasted opportunities brought by the Internet; and how they work to hard to get viewers at the expense of actual news. The story describes various events such as turning down a report on who al-Qaeda is for a reality show about firefighters, having to tie a story about a radical student group into American Dreams, and the failure to cover events like Kurt Cobain suicide (except as an Andy Rooney complaint piece)."
In other words, TV News... (Score:5, Funny)
Misleading Headlines, Irrelevant Stories, Flamebaiting Comments: you heard it here first!
Solomon Chang
Who the hell is (Score:5, Funny)
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Kurt Cobain on the TV (Score:5, Funny)
But at least (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What's wrong with TV news? (Score:5, Funny)
I had to quote that just so I could isolated it from the rest of your post and make sure I had read it correctly.
Re:Who the hell is (Score:5, Funny)
He's the guy that sang the line "I don't have a gun," and then showed us he was being ironic.
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Re:The trouble with TV (why print rules) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In other words, TV News... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who the hell is (Score:5, Funny)
Nevermind.
Re:Call Jon Stewart (Score:4, Funny)
I only "get the joke" because the studio audience is laughing.
So, it MUST be funny. Therefore I laugh.
I've noticed it's like that with a lot of "comedy" type shows. Has been ever since the days of black and white TV.
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Re:A non American view of the US News (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Call Jon Stewart (Score:3, Funny)
Ditto. I bet she's a fuckin' tiger in the sack, especially after a could of good bong rips.
That was a most excellent analysis, LithiumX. Indeed, I'm giving up my ability to moderate on this thread just to tell you that.
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