Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low
by afavour on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:22PM
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Everyone loves to complain about 24/7 cable news (I do too, I hate it) but the actual audience numbers for the stuff is pretty low, all things considered. It’s the super incendiary stuff spreading across Facebook like wildfire that causes the real problems, IMO.
Re:Americans' Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low
by the_af on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:53PM
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> Maybe we don't need 18 different 24/7 "news" channels? That's why we have these "filler" programs.
Note in this context, "there's a finite number of news you can report", means the constraint is you (the reporter), not the news. The news is effectively infinite, it's the organization doing the reporting the one which has a finite "bandwidth" and must pick and choose, introducing unavoidable subjectivity in the process.
So there may be "filler programs", but the reason for them is not that there are not enough actual news to report.
Maybe we don't need 18 different 24/7 "news" channels? That's why we have these "filler" programs.
>But I think people are striving for an entirely objective media that simply doesn't exist, and never has.
News isn't sexy. News doesn't sell. Stoking emotions does, and that's why we are where we are. Even in the days of the newspaper, the OpEd section is what got attention.