We were in a motel last weekend, watched FOX and haven’t for a long time at home. It hit me immediately that they weren’t actually doing the news, just headlines and discussing the headlines. I channel surfed a bit and I don’t see how anyone can get informed from watching news. I knew the story on the issues discussed but if I was depending on them for actual information I would be seriously uniformed. They leave out about 90% of the information on any given issue.
I’ve noticed that ever since I joined Freerepublic in 1998 (I dumped TV in 1997).
I will walk into my workplace where they have CNN on and they are covering stories I’v already read on FR and they are woefully inadequate in their reporting. And you nailed it. News stories on television are usually visual stories, so they can show cool video to an audience that is hungry for something to look at. The actual text might as well be nothing more than a caption under the picture.
Like you say, it isn’t news.
I have a couple of friends that get all their news from watching it on tv. One is conservative the other liberal but they are both so misinformed about anything and everything. But they’ll tell you....I keep up on the news, I know what’s going on. I just shake my head. I watch 0 news on tv.