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What we get in USA is not news though. Esp on TV. It is weather, sports, gossip, fluff pieces, war/disaster/crime (typically non-local), political sound bites.
by njharman 8y ago
What we get in USA is not news though. Esp on TV. It is weather, sports, gossip, fluff pieces, war/disaster/crime (typically non-local), political sound bites. With 1/3 to 50% ads depending on medium.
All those news types have better and or free sources. With more depth and detail.
Problem with tradituinal news orgs are that they attempt to serve everybody so is generic, shallow. And thus very low value. Very low.
- CM30 8y agoYeah, this pretty much sums up another media dilemma nowadays. The internet has made jack of all trades services obsolete, and so people don't need to rely on a single source for all that stuff any more. So the everyday newspaper or TV news network that tries to cover everything simply can't compete with a legion of experts covering their own specialities.
- isostatic 8y agoIn the past news organisations used to pay for those people to find out what's happening in Ruralton, TN, and let the people know. People now aren't willing to pay for those experts, so the only ones that cover the news are those with other agenda