How Ads Affect Our News
Jul. 25th, 2012 04:46 pmIn an out-of-town visitor induced haste, I briefly posted one of my pet peeves about what news has become, notably a race to the bottom of the attention span, constantly trying to keep the attention of the viewer despite a complete lack of engaging detail and even though there are a lot of stories they could be covering. Years ago, This Hour Has 22 Minutes did the best parody of this phenomenon, reporters blathering on about how a door will soon open and someone will say something important, complete with a crawl talking about "The Doors first album was released in 1969," just as a tangental observation. (One day more advanced online search will allow me to share gems like this.)
Today, though, I thought I would go over my observations about current news coverage and how they are hobbled by their chief reason for existence,
( their need to keep corporate sponsors coughing up that corporate cash. )
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Today, though, I thought I would go over my observations about current news coverage and how they are hobbled by their chief reason for existence,
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