I am so sick and tired of the television media

[Krueg235]

Lets take a look at CNN as a sterling example. When is the last time you ever saw CNN do investigative reporting. They don't cover the issues the matter to the public ( you would think if you wanted the best ratings possible you would cover the issues that concerned everybody), or the interests of the public, or the country, or a just society. They echoed the buildup to the Iraq war not because they were good investigative journalists, but because they just report verbatim what the politicians say. This is unacceptable reporting. Being a good news organization isn't telling us what we already know, but what we don't already know.

[lligrd]

1. Have To Agree

As much as I have enjoyed the coverage of Hillary's "misspeak," it is not near as important as what is occurring in Iraq or what Cheney has planned for Iran.

[datopbanana]

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[McCamy Taylor]

4. It isn't for ratings. It is to serve the party that controls the FCC. Noam

Chomsky wrote about this decades before I even wrote about it, so I am not making this up(I just read about it in one of his books today). The telecoms air the propaganda that will get the FCC rulings they need to get to expand their media empires. They also air propaganda that will help their other companies business as in the case of NBC GE.

The corporate media lied about the Iraq War and two months later Michael Powell at the FCC rewarded them with an (illegal) administrative decree that gave them an expanded ability to acquire new media franchises and properties above and beyond what Congress allowed them. Viacom and News Corp needed this in order to become in compliance with the law, otherwise they would have had to sell media holdings.

This means that the corporate media was rewarded by the FCC for leading the nation to war.

As for "Hillary lies" this is just "Gore lies" recycled and no good Democrat should applaud this crap. Bill Bradley played along with "Gore is a liar" in 1999 and 2000 and look what it got us.

[physioex]

5. I share your frustration.....

There are very few investigative shows on televsion. Probably the best shows are on PBS such as Frontline and Nova. The woderful shows on how the Neocons started this war and history of credit cards were wonderful. But I share your frustration CNN is full of fluff. They simply hurry from one piece to another with expert pundints weighing in on issues. There is no in depth reporting.

I get most of my news on DU, you tube, and I use the mass media as a balance.

[DFW]

6. Sarkozy had the right idea

He agreed to an interview, thinking it would be about substantive issues.
When the American MSM interviewer (Stahl of CBS, I think) kept harping on
his divorce, he got up in the middle of it, politely shook her hand and
walked off. If more politicians would do this, maybe someone in the MSM will
get the message that reporters need to cover substantive issues, period.
Maybe. But maybe not. Maybe Helen Thomas is the last of the Mohicans.

[RepublicanElephant]

7. most of my tv news/investigative reporting comes from LinkTV.

it's like what pbs was 25 years ago, before all the corporate sponsorships.