bluestateguy
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:09 PM
Original message |
I long for the old days of the media |
|
Three major networks ran the whole show. There was a nightly newscast and that was it. There were the newspapers too, of course, but you actually read the stories in the paper when the printed newspaper came out.
News moved slower and at a more responsible pace.
Grownups ran the news business. (I'll let you figure out what I mean by that)
And silly one day controversies like the scheduling of a president's speech to Congress would have scarcely warranted a three line entry on page 17.
|
Earth_First
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:10 PM
Response to Original message |
1. INFOTAINMENT what we've been reduced to... n/t |
Cresent City Kid
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:15 PM
Response to Original message |
2. Among my wrong predictions |
|
was that cable news, by virtue of being on 24 hours could get really in depth like Frontline on steroids. Instead, it's the same predigested morsel in hour or half hour servings over and over.
My only correct prediction was the invention of the moped, which came to me in a dream. I suck at predictions.
|
treestar
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:19 PM
Response to Original message |
3. Yeah, you have a really good point |
|
Crap like this might have happened before and people weren't all over it.
|
Zax2me
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:23 PM
Response to Original message |
4. Those who controlled the media wish it were still that way too. |
|
But sites like this one are why I'm glad it will NEVER go back to the way it was.
|
rurallib
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-31-11 09:37 PM
Response to Original message |
5. news is now a profit center |
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Thu May 09th 2024, 12:49 PM
Response to Original message |