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Local news is staffed by the same prettyface, knownothing anchors as mainstream network. What’s lost? What’s gained in what bullshit passes the censors in onl

Local news is staffed by the same prettyface, knownothing anchors as mainstream network. What’s lost? What’s gained in what bullshit passes the censors in online comments these days? Most are inorganic anyway.

__loam 3y ago
This attitude probably isn't helping the situation lol.
- explorer83 3y ago
  Yeah but it's true. Daily program breakdown: 1.)Daily national propaganda piece. Local car dealer commercial. 2.)Regionally Local piece on what's being done or not done about potholes. Pharmaceutical commercial showing active and happy people 3.)Traffic. 4.)Weather. Regional bathtub installer commercial 5.)Sports. Pharmaceutical commercial showing active and happy people 6.)Regionally Local person goes to court and/or prison Fast food commercial 7.)Feel good fluff piece about a puppy that got saved from traffic. Viewer now feels 'informed'.
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  - knaik94 3y ago
    I also hate how emotionally charged the music has become in certain segments or transitions. Watching a story on mute with subtitles, and watching it with sound is a completely different experience. There has also been an increase in labelling everything "breaking news" and "top story", and the stories themselves have become sensationalized and rage baiting. The audio transitions into "breaking" stories prime you to feel a certain way even before hearing the story. I stopped seeing positive fluff, those time slots are replaced by things that feel like ad/sponsored segments or actual ads. At one point I realized that watching the news left me emotionally exhuasted, so I stopped watching it. Surprisingly my older relatives have done the same in the last couple of years. When I asked, they also called it too exhausting to watch. They are anxious about using technology, they aren't getting information through a different medium instead. They told me, "if I need to know about it, someone will bring it up."
knaik94 3y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but you aren't being honest or charitable to the news anchors and you didn't present your argument in a respectful way. I remember this compilation of a bunch of news networks saying the same talking points in a similar cadence. These kind of mandatory talking points undermine the value and purpose of local news reporting. I personally don't think local news still has the same value it did in a pre-broadband time. The primary source is now accessible directly, through social media. And in my opinion, a lot of powerful journalism and journalism adjacent independent reporting happens on youtube/twitter. This independence allows better and nuanced reporting that otherwise wasn't possible. Paper media is on a decline, paper news has been dead for a while. I imagine any paper that refused to embrace the internet is gone now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
- bilbo0s 3y ago
  I don't know much about journalism, but I do know a bit about information gathering. A primary source that is social media based? Well let's just say I just wouldn't stake a large force on that information, and I wouldn't advise you do so either. If it actually counts, social media is not terribly reliable these days.
  - knaik94 3y ago
    I agree, but I specifically meant in the context of local news, people are accessible in a way most weren't pre-broadband. Even the largest news organizations and presentations have started using zoom call recordings in segments. I agree with you that social media is terrible at meaningful filtering and aggregation. Verifying a source will always be a necessary part of journalism, regardless of medium.

__loam 3y ago

This attitude probably isn't helping the situation lol.

explorer83 3y ago
Yeah but it's true. Daily program breakdown: 1.)Daily national propaganda piece. Local car dealer commercial. 2.)Regionally Local piece on what's being done or not done about potholes. Pharmaceutical commercial showing active and happy people 3.)Traffic. 4.)Weather. Regional bathtub installer commercial 5.)Sports. Pharmaceutical commercial showing active and happy people 6.)Regionally Local person goes to court and/or prison Fast food commercial 7.)Feel good fluff piece about a puppy that got saved from traffic. Viewer now feels 'informed'.
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- knaik94 3y ago
  I also hate how emotionally charged the music has become in certain segments or transitions. Watching a story on mute with subtitles, and watching it with sound is a completely different experience. There has also been an increase in labelling everything "breaking news" and "top story", and the stories themselves have become sensationalized and rage baiting. The audio transitions into "breaking" stories prime you to feel a certain way even before hearing the story. I stopped seeing positive fluff, those time slots are replaced by things that feel like ad/sponsored segments or actual ads. At one point I realized that watching the news left me emotionally exhuasted, so I stopped watching it. Surprisingly my older relatives have done the same in the last couple of years. When I asked, they also called it too exhausting to watch. They are anxious about using technology, they aren't getting information through a different medium instead. They told me, "if I need to know about it, someone will bring it up."

knaik94 3y ago

I agree with most of what you said, but you aren't being honest or charitable to the news anchors and you didn't present your argument in a respectful way. I remember this compilation of a bunch of news networks saying the same talking points in a similar cadence. These kind of mandatory talking points undermine the value and purpose of local news reporting. I personally don't think local news still has the same value it did in a pre-broadband time. The primary source is now accessible directly, through social media. And in my opinion, a lot of powerful journalism and journalism adjacent independent reporting happens on youtube/twitter. This independence allows better and nuanced reporting that otherwise wasn't possible. Paper media is on a decline, paper news has been dead for a while. I imagine any paper that refused to embrace the internet is gone now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo

bilbo0s 3y ago
I don't know much about journalism, but I do know a bit about information gathering. A primary source that is social media based? Well let's just say I just wouldn't stake a large force on that information, and I wouldn't advise you do so either. If it actually counts, social media is not terribly reliable these days.
- knaik94 3y ago
  I agree, but I specifically meant in the context of local news, people are accessible in a way most weren't pre-broadband. Even the largest news organizations and presentations have started using zoom call recordings in segments. I agree with you that social media is terrible at meaningful filtering and aggregation. Verifying a source will always be a necessary part of journalism, regardless of medium.