Normally...I'd bite my tongue on this issue...but on this, I can't.
((most of us have to rely on news agencies to provide us all this information and they are warping it, and most likely intentionally, because this way the news is selling. Grr. Idiot news people.))
It's nice to know that ten years of education and two degrees have made me an idiot news person.
Media sources do not intentionally warp the news. We can't do that. It's illegal. We report the information we are given. And unfortunatley, sometimes we are given the incorrect information.
And they way the news is selling is the way the viewers want it. Nice news doesn't get viewers. Believe me. It's been tried, many times. Unfortunatley, people want the gross and gory. It gets the ratings. Plain and simple.
I have worked in newsrooms for the past six years. Until you have as well, and you know EXACTLY how they and the people in them work, don't assume anything. We're just doing our jobs like the rest of the people in this country.
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Date: 2006-06-03 08:45 pm (UTC)((most of us have to rely on news agencies to provide us all this information and they are warping it, and most likely intentionally, because this way the news is selling. Grr. Idiot news people.))
It's nice to know that ten years of education and two degrees have made me an idiot news person.
Media sources do not intentionally warp the news. We can't do that. It's illegal. We report the information we are given. And unfortunatley, sometimes we are given the incorrect information.
And they way the news is selling is the way the viewers want it. Nice news doesn't get viewers. Believe me. It's been tried, many times. Unfortunatley, people want the gross and gory. It gets the ratings. Plain and simple.
I have worked in newsrooms for the past six years. Until you have as well, and you know EXACTLY how they and the people in them work, don't assume anything. We're just doing our jobs like the rest of the people in this country.