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The difference between US vs UK Ebola news coverage - Russell Howard's Good News (Original Post)
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2014
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The news used to be the way stations earned their time on the public airwaves....
Spitfire of ATJ
Oct 2014
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riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)1. Hilarious.... and so true about the differences
also can say there are same differences between Canadian and American.
It is all about money... American media has to create fear with false hype in order to get viewers. sad but true.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)3. The news used to be the way stations earned their time on the public airwaves....
Then it became linked to the ratings and became "infotainment".
This allowed them to cut back on news bureaus. CNN used to have bureaus all over the country and the world filing reports. If there was news out of Moscow someone like Bernard Shaw would kick it over to a reporter on the ground there and then STFU and let them do the talking.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)2. I love it when he does his English accent! n/t
progressoid
(49,978 posts)4. You mean American accent?