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> somehow proved popular enough In my view Teletext has a great property: A single page is short. Thus news articles must be compact and straight to the point.
by johannes1234321 1y ago
> somehow proved popular enough
In my view Teletext has a great property: A single page is short. Thus news articles must be compact and straight to the point. Unlike the text here, which I can fill with fluff, unrelated side remarks and repetition, a teletext author has to find the essence in the news and focus. That makes scanning Teletext news quick while giving a good view on what is "important" (by the standards of that broadcaster)
- wkat4242 1y agoAnd there's no images. I really hate those news pages that are 90% photo
- anthk 1y agoYep. No bias, no matter which political side you choose, you just got raw news in any channel. That was great for objectivity and fairness.
- mrguyorama 1y agoThe constant belief by people that somehow, if you remove information, you reduce bias is insane. I assure you, Pravda could fit it's biases, lies, propaganda, and omissions in 160 characters. Bullshit has always been easy to shrink. It is nuance, context, framing, etc that you are eschewing in your mistaken belief of "no bias".
- johannes1234321 1y agoI don't know how you read that into my post. It is quite different: Having such a limited channel as Teletext one has to be even more selective on the news being reported and then which aspects of it to report. Over here in Germany I got some TV stations discussing on celebrity news, some station focusing on economy/business news, others on political things, some in sports. But yeah, USA has this "two sides" issue with a touch of zero sum (it's always either this or that side and either helping one or the other side)