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February 27, 2007
Fuck The Dow II
Watching my new fav program "News War" on PBS... I yet again find myself angered at the business world when it comes to journalism. Every talking head on this program that is on the business end of journalism is talking out of their ass about what the public wants. Fuck you. This is the horrible dividend of deregulation and the end of "equal time" rules at the FCC... newspapers and the evening news has to be at a profit.
It's NOT about what the public wants to know. It's not about catching pedophiles at a house. Murrow spins in his grave so fast at this point, he could be an alternative energy source. Cutting corners and wanting ratings has made us stupider. Watch CNN and you know what I mean.
David Westin sickens me. SICKENS ME! "I put teenage sex on the news because that's what people want and it gets me ratings and it makes the investors happy." That's what he would say if he was honest. We all know it's the truth. But he says it is news. No, teens having sex, not news.
Thank god for Koppel on this thing. He just speaks my soul on this. I know I'm blogging right now, but I have great respect for the history of journalism and to see it die so slowly and painfully saddens me.
Sorry to put it like this: if you get surprised by the next threat out there, remember the news was not serving you at this moment. It was serving the public's salvatory glands. Not it's brains.
Posted by emily at February 27, 2007 10:50 PM