"The hosts are going to go where the ratings are and as long as there's an audience for this stuff (and a big one, at that) then hosts will continue to devote whole segments and indeed HOURS to this type of story."
Exactly. If people would watch, they'd broadcast paint drying on a fence, or grass growing. The only thing the tv people care about is production costs, and viewership. It is how they make money.
No doubt. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Just because it's news doesn't mean it's also a business..
Fox ought to try it. Sounds like a perfect early afternoon show for them.
Well... John Gibson was talking about this topic one day when he was filling in on the radio for Snow, and he said that sometimes he tries to insert topics that HE KNOWS are important and he said, as they say in the business, you could hear the sound of channels changing all over the country. They HAVE TO cover what people want to watch.
But you still have to wonder if sometimes they cover things up like mass murder in Israel, or truth in Iraq while covering this one murder of a pretty girl to death (bad analogy, I know).