- TargaryenTKE@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
As someone who currently works ‘in the news’, try watching your local station instead of the national channels. They’re definitely not perfect either, but instead of being a nonstop barrage of Doom you frequently get puff pieces about new shops, upcoming events, or whatever else in your area might resonate more with you as an individual living in XYZ city. Just this morning my station had a story about an upcoming stage production of the Lion King, a fundraiser/gala thingy to raise money for people living with HIV, and an animal shelter announcing 50% off all adoptions for the month of October. Pretty sure all of this can be classified as “sponsored content” (they pay the station to have their topic presented) but again, it’s a welcome break from the endless doom-casting of FOX or MSN
- DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
As with so many things, you can trace it back to Ronald Reagan.
Cronkite, Peter Jennings et al worked under a thing called ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’ Back when radio was first regulated, both Parties agreed that the public airwaves should remain neutral. No one person / company could own more than six radio stations [AM and FM] Any time there was an editorial, the station had to offer time for opposing views, and the stations had to broadcast news daily.
Reagan had seen how that system had taken down Nixon, and swore it would be destroyed.
2 daysIt’s like being a better person doesn’t even occur to them as an option
- DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
That’s the great thing about knowing how great you are.
Lying is completely justified if it’s in a good cause, and keeping the GOP in power is a sacred cause.
blame CNN.
They created the modern 24 hour news cycle, which slowly destroyed news media in general over the next 40 years.
There is not enough happening to sustain a 24 hour news cycle, so it becomes constant hammering of the slightest incidents, or crimes from 800lbs a way, or whatever it takes.
Thus creating the guise, for people not capable of critical thought, that the world is on fire and crime is rampant. . when they are seeing nothing but the same crime being reported on 200 times over 2 days, and the occasional incident from somewhere they’d never go and has no relevance on them or their local area, much less their entire state.
There’s more stuff they could report on, but it either doesn’t advance their ideological agenda or doesn’t interest their audience and doesn’t get them clicks.
- pessimisticPigeon@feddit.orgEnglish2 days
Still got that type of news in Germany. Except the guy in a suit is sometimes replaced by a woman in a blazer. Daily programme called “Tagesschau” is still the most watched show in german television.
- Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish2 days
Unfortunately they’ve been making it a bit worse deliberately, by stretching out irrelevant topics and adding street interviews with people that have nothing to say :/
