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Re:How Millennials Get News by cbd1984 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @05:13AM (#9224338)
> In the old days 1994, there was at least some journalistic content on the news with Peter Jennings.

And people from a prior generation laughed at the idea of Peter Jennings being 'journalistic' and pinned their ideals on Brinkley and Huntley. Basically, this statement says nothing and means nothing, because it's just a generational marker, nothing more.

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Re:How Millennials Get News by Spooky23 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @12:32PM (#9226681)
That's a total gloss-over.

Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network. As the number of channels increased and mandates decreased, they shifted to a more "entertainy" format to keep viewers.

This stuff is all available online. Look at the information density of a random broadcast in 1965, 1975, etc. Signal goes down, noise goes up.

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Re:How Millennials Get News by cbd1984 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @06:20PM (#9229061)
> Broadcast news started out as an FCC mandate for licensing purpose, and a differentiator where more quality made a difference in the performance of the network.

Given the history of news, this is very doubtful, unless you define 'quality' as 'more entertaining'.

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