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> But people don't want to pay for news I don’t know that that is actually true. I know that for me, I’m not interested in paying for: - The daily homicide re

> But people don't want to pay for news I don’t know that that is actually true. I know that for me, I’m not interested in paying for: - The daily homicide report - 3 minutes of news per half hour, mixed in with 19 minutes of “stories” that are paid placement for products, movies, recording artists, etc., followed by 8 minutes of advertisements, mostly for medications I don’t need for some reason - Weak interviews and reporting that ignores very obvious lies from the people being reported on with absolutely no mention of that fact - Both-siding a story where one side has clear facts and the other side is quite possibly literally crazy, or at the very least being obviously heavily manipulated by special interests and that’s not mentioned at all - Reporting on what someone tweeted, especially with no indication that what was tweeted is known to be bogus or unconfirmed I do happily give to PBS and NPR because they have reasonable coverage of most news, but over the last 5 years, even they have been sucked into the sensationalism and reporting on tweets that regular news outlets have fallen victim to. They’re still miles better, but it’s a low bar to begin with.

MBCook 4y ago
This is a huge part of why I stopped watching “the news”. “Representative X said A. When asked about it, representative Y said they were wrong so B. Now sports.” Huh? Who was right? Was it a matter of fact you can judge? If so why don’t you? Even on opinions there is usually good contextual facts you can add. But when you just repeat crazy or dangerous or factually incorrect you normalize it. And by never calling anyone out on things you signal it’s all equally correct. “The president said F. We said no, G. He said but F, H, and I are all true, I said them. Sunny tomorrow…” Soundbites without analysts are horrible. Repeatedly letting people get away with lying about objective facts and continuing to give them airtime to say it is useless. Reporting “science” that comes from press releases on non-reviewed pre-release papers in journals no one has heard of that contradicts what you said was real last week destroys trust in science. And telling me feel good stories about kids who started lemonade stands to pay for their own chemo completely misses the point. And I don’t care about Kanye. It doesn’t matter other than the fact that at this point people appear to be taking advantage of his mental illness. But no one is covering that that I’ve seen.

MBCook 4y ago

This is a huge part of why I stopped watching “the news”. “Representative X said A. When asked about it, representative Y said they were wrong so B. Now sports.” Huh? Who was right? Was it a matter of fact you can judge? If so why don’t you? Even on opinions there is usually good contextual facts you can add. But when you just repeat crazy or dangerous or factually incorrect you normalize it. And by never calling anyone out on things you signal it’s all equally correct. “The president said F. We said no, G. He said but F, H, and I are all true, I said them. Sunny tomorrow…” Soundbites without analysts are horrible. Repeatedly letting people get away with lying about objective facts and continuing to give them airtime to say it is useless. Reporting “science” that comes from press releases on non-reviewed pre-release papers in journals no one has heard of that contradicts what you said was real last week destroys trust in science. And telling me feel good stories about kids who started lemonade stands to pay for their own chemo completely misses the point. And I don’t care about Kanye. It doesn’t matter other than the fact that at this point people appear to be taking advantage of his mental illness. But no one is covering that that I’ve seen.