Nicely summed up Bernie, I concur. I don't watch very much cable news these days because of what you mentioned about is the problem with these networks.
As always you’re provoking good thought but your note re the corporate nature says it all. I don’t think Cronkite /Rather/Brokaw (Rather in particular has morphed into a sniping retired man…) weren’t immune either. Cable news can’t be isolated as the killer of real hard journalism.
Hi Bernie. Hope all is well in your world. However, i think you off a little bit. having graduated from a top Comm school, I believe "journalism" isn't what it once was. Seems to me that many in not just cable news but virtually all of TV journalism have abdicated their pledge to the truth, if in fact they ever took one. I will note that Tucker never attempts to pass what he does as journalism, its merely his opinion, dont like it, go somewhere else. much different is how Msnbc and Cnn try to pass off what they do as journalism, which it clearly isn't. All of it seems like a bunch children with cameras whining about the latest butthurt comment from so and so how they feel about it. I saw an interview with Chris Matthews which I'm sure you've seen, where he essentially says that newspeople don't have to give just the facts anymore due there being so much information out there to the viewer. And, that it's up to the viewer to do their own research to determine what is true and what is not. Parts of that I agree with. I watch and search and absorb info from all over the world, understanding corporate and political bias and then distilling it down to what I believe to be true, which is usually somewhere in the middle usually. Most importantly is the search for the truth and how much are we lied to daily that disturbs me. I dont watch much "news" since I know the lies that I'm being told.
Hi Bernie: As usual, i don't have anything to disagree with in this edition of Off the Cuff. I fear the trend of people watching those who tell them what they want to hear is entrenched deeply however. I have recently come upon a source of information i find interesting in their seeming attempt to balance the story telling: The Dispatch. Do you have any insights on this group of folks?
Bernie, you are right about almost everything, with a tiny exception.
No doubt, the journalism business has experienced a reverse evolution in the past decade, which has made it less reliable as a source of news.
In the past, a journalist doing a reporting piece never injected his opinion into his story. If they did, they'd been looking for another line of work, like delivering newspapers instead of writing for them.
The only thing you said I'm not sure about is that viewers don't have the right to watch a news program that they know will be favorable to their way of thinking, to their political ideologies.
Television is and always has been entertainment. I think people have the right to be entertained in the manner they choose. And if that means, to make them happy, watching Fox for a right-wing point of view, or CNN for a left-wing point of view, it might not be wise to do so, but they still have the right to choose their type of entertainment.
Nicely summed up Bernie, I concur. I don't watch very much cable news these days because of what you mentioned about is the problem with these networks.
As always you’re provoking good thought but your note re the corporate nature says it all. I don’t think Cronkite /Rather/Brokaw (Rather in particular has morphed into a sniping retired man…) weren’t immune either. Cable news can’t be isolated as the killer of real hard journalism.
Hi Bernie. Hope all is well in your world. However, i think you off a little bit. having graduated from a top Comm school, I believe "journalism" isn't what it once was. Seems to me that many in not just cable news but virtually all of TV journalism have abdicated their pledge to the truth, if in fact they ever took one. I will note that Tucker never attempts to pass what he does as journalism, its merely his opinion, dont like it, go somewhere else. much different is how Msnbc and Cnn try to pass off what they do as journalism, which it clearly isn't. All of it seems like a bunch children with cameras whining about the latest butthurt comment from so and so how they feel about it. I saw an interview with Chris Matthews which I'm sure you've seen, where he essentially says that newspeople don't have to give just the facts anymore due there being so much information out there to the viewer. And, that it's up to the viewer to do their own research to determine what is true and what is not. Parts of that I agree with. I watch and search and absorb info from all over the world, understanding corporate and political bias and then distilling it down to what I believe to be true, which is usually somewhere in the middle usually. Most importantly is the search for the truth and how much are we lied to daily that disturbs me. I dont watch much "news" since I know the lies that I'm being told.
Hi Bernie: As usual, i don't have anything to disagree with in this edition of Off the Cuff. I fear the trend of people watching those who tell them what they want to hear is entrenched deeply however. I have recently come upon a source of information i find interesting in their seeming attempt to balance the story telling: The Dispatch. Do you have any insights on this group of folks?
Bernie, you are right about almost everything, with a tiny exception.
No doubt, the journalism business has experienced a reverse evolution in the past decade, which has made it less reliable as a source of news.
In the past, a journalist doing a reporting piece never injected his opinion into his story. If they did, they'd been looking for another line of work, like delivering newspapers instead of writing for them.
The only thing you said I'm not sure about is that viewers don't have the right to watch a news program that they know will be favorable to their way of thinking, to their political ideologies.
Television is and always has been entertainment. I think people have the right to be entertained in the manner they choose. And if that means, to make them happy, watching Fox for a right-wing point of view, or CNN for a left-wing point of view, it might not be wise to do so, but they still have the right to choose their type of entertainment.
No doubt, they will not be wiser for doing so.