I sure do miss NEWS

[Atman]

There is literally no television source for actual news anymore. I used to enjoy reading the paper over a cup of coffee in the morning, while CNN or even -- long ago and far away -- the Today show, filled me in on the world developments which occurred while I was asleep. Even Today used to do actual news segments. Now, the local Tribune Media Co-owned paper is half the size and costs 75 cents, and the front page story is invariably a light-weight human interest story about an old lady who rescues puppies, or a flag-waving celebration of some local kid fighting to protect our freedoms in Iraq. CNN has done the seemingly impossible and made me actually almost miss Solidad O'Brien, replacing her and her Ken-Doll twin with a pair of twits even more vacuous than their predecessors. With FOX News roots, no less. On top of it, they seem to have shortened the "news" rotation to about ten minutes. That is, they take their top non-stories (home video of kids running in a storm; a commuter melee at a subway station in Argentina) and repeat them over and over and over, every few minutes. These nuggets are interwove with the story about the MIA soldier whose family was told he was dead, but it turned out he wasn't, now he really might be. Of course, nothing, not a word, about the war itself. Flipping over to MSNBC, former actual newsman David Gregory is flopping around like a fish out of water doing a live radio show with Imus' former staff, and some woman no one has ever heard of. But at least he's not Joe Scarborough.

*sigh*

Thankfully, I can crank up the internet tubes and turn to DU's LBN section. Too bad most of the rest of America is still watching the goobers on The Today Show doing cooking segments and reporting the latest American Idol updates.

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[silverlib]

1. Here lies hope - International World News - The Real News

http://therealnews.com/web/index.php

Just got this in my in-box. I intend to support this. It's been in the works for three years and it looks like it is taking off.

[Atman]

2. Cool. Thanks!

I'll be watching for the launch.

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[Bitwit1234]

4. I got it also and I can't wait....

[k8conant]

5. Thanks for The Real News...

I'm joining.

It's become harder and harder to find any real news. I have hundreds of cable channels and no 24/7 news. I remember CNN when it started and it was actually a place to go to for news. Sometimes now I try to go out to the wire services on line but I've become disgusted with the opinionated lack of quality of AP (sometimes as much news as an Ann Coulter polemic!)

[sheerjoy]

3. I spent 24 years

in newspaper field... editor of several... real news ended in the 80's....

[Clark2008]

7. Not quite - I'd give it until the mid-90s.

Granted, it was on the downward slope then, but I was still reporting real news in the 90s.

I watched it completely slip away after I left the business in 1999 to have my son (child-rearing and crime reporting aren't conducive to one another).

It was still there in the 90s, but it was gasping for its last breath amid the choke of celebrity gossip and entertainment "news."

[sheerjoy]

8. I disagree

but hey, it was wayyyyyyyyy downhill already in the 90's....most did not realize it then...<g>....

[blueworld]

6. And they rarely mention the rest of the world

I was shocked to discover they still have current events all over Europe, South America, Asia & Africa & lotsa other spots that basically have nothing to do with oil or terrorism and it's impact on the US.

Of course, I haven't checked in with Faux News yet!