OMG! This it too Funny! -- Media Landscape Redefined By 24-Second News Cycle (The Onion)

[Up2Late]

(And you absolutely must check out the photo "screen capture" that goes with this story too, it's great!)

Media Landscape Redefined By 24-Second News Cycle

June 1, 2007 | Issue 43•22

ATLANTA—Last week, after a reported 65 million Americans learned of the bipartisan immigration bill with the breaking news report "Mexicans Stay," it became apparent that the much- ballyhooed 24-second news cycle had come into its own. But now some media experts are questioning the conventional wisdom that says the quickening pace of reportage is providing more news to more people faster.

"Thinking back, the 24-hour news cycle seems glacially slow and simply incapable of covering our ever-changing world," Slate media critic Jack Shafer said. "Yet I can't help but think that segments that last less than four seconds are missing out on some nuance and context that the old 45-second pieces provided. When the media covers the story of a missing girl these days, are they reporting it with the depth and detail that they once did?"

CNN is widely credited with initiating the acceleration of the modern news cycle with the fall 2006 debut of its spin-off channel CNN:24, which provides a breaking news story, an update on that story, and a news recap all within 24 seconds. In addition to creating its groundbreaking format, CNN:24 broke many important stories with reports such as "Ford No Money Everyone Fired," "Iraq Bomb Kill Truck," "Country Hates Bush," "Dow High Now," and "Squirrel Water Skis."

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...The changes have had a ripple effect throughout the media, inspiring everything from the somewhat more in-depth newsmagazine format of CBS's 10 Minutes to the even more stripped-down Fox News Look. The latter repeats every 15 seconds, features more and simpler imagery, and forgoes the use of verbal language in favor of newscasters who gesture emphatically at video clips and hoot in approval or growl in derision, depending on the story.

(more at link) <http://www.theonion.com/content/news/media_landscape_redefined_by_24>

And again, "The Onion" is Satire.:evilgrin:

[Wetzelbill]

1. once I posted an Onion article about Bush saying

something like "Bring it on" to some country, I can't remember, but it was hilarious satire. The problem was out of like 100 responses, only about 3 or 4 DUers actually got the joke. People were getting pissed off! They were just like incensed that Bush would do that again. Oh man, it was at once beautiful and sad. Beautiful because it was so funny, but sad because you know something like that could be true with an idiot like Bush running things.

[Up2Late]

3. Yeah, I hate it when that happens...

...so I always try to put a note that it's Satire for those who never heard of The Onion, because some is so well written, and as crazy as real life has become, you sometimes can't tell.

And for those who missed it, The Onion now has a "Video News" now too: <http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_something_happening>

[skids]

4. Quote of the decade... but I can't remember who said it...

...it was on a talking heads show (Dobbs maybe?) I think before the election. Someone said "it's getting harder and harder to distinguish satire from reality these days." Many have said it since, and probably before, but I think that's probably the first notable contemporaneous use of the phrase.

[wakeme2008]

2. Sounds like the Three Little Pigs in 13 seconds lady

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbi72d8LJus :rofl:

[Up2Late]

5. kick n/t

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[DireStrike]

6. must see

(hooting in approval)

[Up2Late]

7. kick n/t

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