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Originally Posted by katygirl68
Are they? I for one think news should be more serious. For instance, why do I have to watch Frontline to know anything about what's really going on in Syria? We get short blurbs on the evening news, or sometimes just on the news crawl at the bottom of the screen. It's a shame that Americans have been at war for 15 years, and we barely hear about it on the news. If there was a draft, you could damn sure bet people would be interested in what was happening over there.
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Well, that's the issue, isn't it? TV is ratings-driven. If shows like Frontline were more popular, then you'd see more of them. And keep in mind that internet news is click-driven.
Print journalism is losing ground to TV and the internet, and it is still where you find organizations large and wealthy enough to do real in-depth news reporting. In the US, that means the NYT and the WSJ. Twenty years ago, many big city newspapers could afford this kind of reporting, but now they can't.
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