Since when did news anchors become experts in everything :blobderpverified:
I thought their job was to read the news from a prompt instead of speculating and sharing their opinions but I guess I was wrong
And they keep wondering why young people don't bother with the "news" anymore :neocat_science:
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_maleficentgirl
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depends on how its done.
We have dedicated wartime correspondents for a reason.
If they just report on what happend but dont a) put it in context and b) try to guesstimate how/where it's going to develop why the fuck would I even watch em, I can jsut read the numbers myself.
@_maleficentgirl Yup but they are indeed experts in their field! 😉
I'm talking about anchors who apparently know everything about everything
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Pēteris Krišjānis
In response to this post@stux since "news" became a business that has to attract viewership so it can show ads.
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Makyris
In response to this post@stux What I think is funny is most young people never cared about the news, ever, all throughout time. It's age and experience that seems to change that. Yet so many people want to act like todays youth are somehow different. No they're the same, just different technology.
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Tykayn
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it is what happens under the recommendations of the Atlas network, a factory of bullshit from the far right that recommends ways to communicate their hate speech in many medias and corporations.
hopefully we have still young people doing journalism, contextualizing and sourcing their stuff with science backed studies in the long run. but billionaires do not like that and buy most of the medias to spread their bullshit and hate speech.
this week there were a diffusion about it here in french from Blast media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSS5KUURnSo
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Trebach
In response to this post@stux I've been inside one of the local TV news sets before. They have a teleprompter right next to the camera that is pointed at them.
Weather and traffic don't have teleprompters but have a monitor corresponding to being shown on the green/blue screen behind them so they know what they're pointing at and should be talking about
@trebach That was my understanding also!
But like with CNN etc, the readers often put so much uh.. "random stuff" in between that I'm sure i cannot be from a prompt
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stux⚡
In response to this postI gotta say, this is particularly extreme with US news channels, it's either right or left but almost no "plain news reporting"
Ofc "plain news reporting" isn't really a thing anymore since it now has to fall on on of either sides depending on how it's written or told I guess
It's just super exhausting to need to read the news like heavy literature
@stux Sadly american news shows are more entertainment than news.
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@stux
Somehow I don't think they'll win the Nobel Prize for journalism, or literature. :ablobcatbongo:
by Solar Branka :mw: ;
@stux Agreed, trying to first get the objective news(facts; what happened ,where who), without opinions, is very difficult currently.
News unfortunately, especially corporate media news, has regressed into "infotaiment"in order to attract attention and satisfy advertisers for revenues.
And social media platforms, like X and Facebook, have been taken over by fascist owners.
Myself, I first want short form news details and facts, then read or listen to long form pieces for critical analysis.
by yuhasz01 ;
@stux there are a number of new US channels that are excellent:
- 404 media (https://www.404media.co)
- Semafor (https://www.semafor.com)
- Gothamist [local, NYC] (https://gothamist.com)
Just to name a few. Also many valuable new sources are moving to email newsletters or funded RSS feeds. I’ll try to get you some of those.
by Gabriel N ;
@stux I would contend that all of US news is Corporate News that very much supports their owners first, and for the most part that means topic censorship - Like the Palestinian perspective, or the Pro-Luigi perspective or the impacts of income inequality / concentration of wealth. The goal of this is to ensure people are distracted by culture issues rather than class issues.
And there is no ‘leftist media’ in the US. It is a Fascist Right vs a Center Right. Just the two political parties.
by tom w wolf ;
@stux left news in the US? yeah nah
by Kratombomb ;
@stux best option NPR. Or PBS
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L.C.
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Young people mostly get their news through different media than we older generations did. Of course everyone has the ability now adays, but it is the younger generations that utilize that ability more. You can literally listen to only those who share your ideology now, and ignore those who do not (Recently even older generations have began doing this more than in the past). Media companies like CNN, FOX, etc are just catering to specific groups now. This is one of the biggest down (CONT)
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Corb_The_Lesser
In response to this post@stux Yeppers. Almost everything on US cable TV labeled "news" is really talking heads riffing on the news to target a specific profitable demographic.
Producing news is expensive. You have to pay reporters, etc., stand up news bureaus in multiple cities/countries. The experience of a few cable nets in the 80s & 90s, especially CNN, who tried to do straight news convinced the industry there's no money in it.
There's an audience for 30-60 minutes a day of real TV news but not 24/7/365.
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