The 24 Hour, Twitter Based, News Cycle

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Unclebaldrick said:
Not a bad description otherwise.

I would ask of the possibility that the "news" was destined to be this way and was just waiting for the technology to catch up.

"Quality" news was an artificial construct imposed upon the world by a combination of elites and technological lag.

In the case of elites, our news content has been driven by and for educated elites who decided upon what news was important (international affairs, business, etc.) rather than letting the free market decide (real housewives, american idol). Technology allowed more sources of information and started the ratings fueled race to the bottom. I submit that the masses always resented the elitist, balanced news and were just waiting for camera phone driven news the whole time.

As far as technology goes. When I was a kid, there were three networks. The top shows were serious dramatic performances. People got thrown off the air for saying "water closet". This kind of thing was only possible because the technology did not yet exist to provide alternatives. The number of media outlets has grown by about a a billion percent in my lifetime. Science fiction writers in the 40s and 50s saw it coming. Hell, HG Wells saw it coming.
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There's such a thing as quality journalism, it's just that Americans don't care about it.

Exhibit A; al Jazeera America, RIP.
 
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Finshaggy said:
I think the biggest loss is of Investigative reporters/Watchdog media. A lot of Networks have like CIA and White house correspondents and they try not to say anything bad about the Government because then they could lose their line in.
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Agreed. This is news capture, and special treatment of any media, organization or individual must be outlawed.
 
@Trousers, tons of people just watch 1 channel and usually just because they like 1 or 2 hosts on that channel, and sometimes they don't even know who people are on other channels and that is why they don't watch the other channels. So maybe that's not you, but it is a large portion of the US.
 
ttystikk said:
Agreed. This is news capture, and special treatment of any media, organization or individual must be outlawed.
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It would help if, for example, media could not be invited to State dinners but could cover them. And if they would release things that the CIA asked them not to release every once in a while, and asked the CIA to respect their 1st Amendment right.
 
Finshaggy said:
@Trousers, tons of people just watch 1 channel and usually just because they like 1 or 2 hosts on that channel, and sometimes they don't even know who people are on other channels and that is why they don't watch the other channels. So maybe that's not you, but it is a large portion of the US.
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Bad News, by former CBD Senior Correspondent, Tom Fenton.

An excellent read, prescient and disturbingly accurate in its prediction of today's miserable excuse for public information about what our elected officials are doing to us.
 
Finshaggy said:
It would help if, for example, media could not be invited to State dinners but could cover them. And if they would release things that the CIA asked them not to release every once in a while, and asked the CIA to respect their 1st Amendment right.
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State dinners, as well as campaign fundraisers of all types, for candidates seeking public office, must never be allowed to be closed to reporting.

If these people have something to say, they can tell all of us, including Mitt & Shill.
 
ttystikk said:
State dinners, as well as campaign fundraisers of all types, for candidates seeking public office, must never be allowed to be closed to reporting.

If these people have something to say, they can tell all of us, including Mitt & Shill.
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There is the Freedom of Information Act, which most people have heard of. But there is also the Open Meetings Act. The Media should want to teach us about this kinds of things, and how to use them. And those 2 things together could really open up the Government.
 
Finshaggy said:
There is the Freedom of Information Act, which most people have heard of. But there is also the Open Meetings Act. The Media should want to teach us about this kinds of things, and how to use them. And those 2 things together could really open up the Government.
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The media SHOULD, but since they're now campaign donors themselves they won't.
 
Why is CSPAN the only place where you can get full Legislative TV news and why is it so boring. Why don't they get some announcers, like a sport. They can be like
 
But even though these media stations started with the best of intentions, and push for ratings with the best of intentions. They are not the only ones who have 1st Amendment Rights. If you decide you want to print a single page once a week and spread it around your neighborhood, you are the press. If you create an online magazine or blog, you are the press. If you go door to door passing out Literature, you are the press.
 
Finshaggy said:
Yeah, Robert Ayles and Les Moonves and whoever owns CNN. They decide what the Narrative is.
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Their decisions would be a lot more to our liking if their parent companies weren't meddling in the very news their speed to be 'objectively' reporting.
 
Finshaggy said:
But even though these media stations started with the best of intentions, and push for ratings with the best of intentions. They are not the only ones who have 1st Amendment Rights. If you decide you want to print a single page once a week and spread it around your neighborhood, you are the press. If you create an online magazine or blog, you are the press. If you go door to door passing out Literature, you are the press.
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Yet, it CAN be done. There just needs to be an audience that cares. I'm not convinced anyone in America cares enough about real investigative journalism to support it anymore.
 
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