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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

News or Not

Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

In a recent “news article” about a news person throughout the article I detected words that told me that news may not be about news but about ratings, sales and money-money-money. I say this because in my youth, watching the Huntley-Brinkley news, I learned and understood that in the television world news was not and never would be profitable simply because it would mean losing site of the “NEWS!”

Now I hear words like, “Star” that relates to movies, television and things entertainment. Highest rated relates to ratings and we all kind of know that to get ratings means more money and more emotional driven aspects of news over factual news - after all, aren’t we all now concerned about fake news sources when we should be concerned about bad news as well? 

Second most watched relates to ratings. Contracts are becoming just like sports, inflated to a degree that to attain and hold such high money means giving the public what they think they need in place of unbiased factual and truthful NEWS. 

Here are some more extracted meme’s, quotes and words that don’t give me good vibes in regard to truth in news: 
  • its two biggest stars
  • the highest-rated cable news programs
  • second-most watched
  • television news contract
  • more than $20 million a year
  • new annual salary
  • even a modest raise would place him/her among television’s highest paid journalists
  • career as a lawyer before changing course to become
  • study political science instead of journalism
  • corporate litigator
  • cut a TV news demo tape and began cold-calling station managers
  • from fledgling news freelance reporter to the national correspondent in the same year.
p.s. when the lines separating entertainment from real news get so blurred you can no longer tell the difference then News becomes just another reality-show money monster. 



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