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Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by JohnFen on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:39PM (#37054409)
> CNN was considered hard news in the 80s

I blame CNN for much of the state of news today. TV news has always been poor, but before CNN proved otherwise, news was not something that was considered a profit-maker. Once CNN showed it can make money, then the profit maximalization began in earnest, and with that came the descent into news-as-entertainment.

That started well before the gulf war.

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Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by cbsmith on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:49PM (#37054554)
Oh, that goes way back before CNN and cable, or even TV.

As an aside, 99% invisible had a pretty good podcast on how radio (which delivers news to more Americans -and is trusted more- than TV) content has changed over the years. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-divided-dial/

The change has been systemic, and that change shaped CNN more than the other way around.

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Re:Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company by xattt on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:22PM (#37056794)
An oft-forgotten movie is the Network (1976) that predicts the rise of activist news hosts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
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