[don-o]

I have been on a Neil Postman kick today. The man saw it clearly

------------------------------------------------

“I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result.

And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”

― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

[Rennes Templar]

I watch the alphabet “news” occasionally and I swear they need to change the name. Only one or two “hard” “news” stories, usually weather or trauma. The rest is all fluff entertainment pieces. With 15 minutes of senior citizen drug commercials in a 30 muniute show.

Should be the CBS Evening Post.

[Louis Foxwell]

Too often the local on site reporter has been given a story line to flesh out with interviews and commentary. They can be oblivious to any take other than that superimposed on them by their director. They are not reporters. They are regurgitaters.

[dfwgator]

And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”

Or as Don Henley sang in "Dirty Laundry"...."We all know that Crap is King."