PET PEEVE: If you are a 24hr news network, how do you run out of time?

They ask guests onto the show.. give them maybe 5 to 10 minutes for the segment, and then say "that's all the time we have for this"... just enough info to decieve people.. cutting off information that would be pertinent. I understand certain shows have a time limitation.. but if you are reporting the news.. blah, blah, blah.. how do you run out of time? AND esp. when its to cut in and get some other tid bit about the Bush wedding.. Make me really vomit today, please.

deal with matters in-depth?:sarcasm:

But you know that MSNBC has all those prisons to cover! And CNN has all that fluff to fluff!

How naive of you to expect that a news network will show news on its network.

:shrug:

This is where I get my REAL news. I must say when the MSM's reports something that's been discussed here and on other sites for weeaks. even if they suck at the coverage I am glad they get the info out. i.e. Rev Hagee!

After spending time in GD: Primaries, it's good to be reminded. :)

I seldom watch or listen to any commercial news outlet, except for MSNBC.

For some odd reason, it seemed that every time I tried to watch one of the news spewers it was about some ignorant twit from Hollywood that was on drugs again, or a feel-good story about some animal or baby or some other such crap.

Seems like that has been the rule for the last twenty years or so.

I went to the corner store and just as I got there, the clerk was closing the store and locking the door.

I said, "Hey, your sign says you're open 24 Hours, what gives?"

The clerk said "Well, not in a row....."

The corporations that pay for those commercials are the primary concern of the corporate media. The game of calling them selves news is just an illusion to get the American People's eyes looking at and ears listening to commercials and propaganda that suit the network's agenda.

I developed an allergic reaction to non ending commercials due to over exposure, my only recourse is flipping the station, channel or just turning it off and logging on to D.U. and other websites in order to get my information from those people with a constitution still strong enough to handle the perpetual barrage of commercialized propaganda.

I would suggest as an experiment for any non-believer to get their stop watches out and time actual news information coming from a source other than the opinions of the "journalist" or pundits compared to pundit/journalist opinion combined with commercial time. I would also suggest having a bucket handy to catch vast quantities of undigested material as the cold hard reality sinks in.

Thanks for the thread, glowing.

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Bubble head: "Well, that's all the time we have now" Cutting off something actually pertinent. And then the "guest" (paid that is), smiles like a cheeseball and thanks the bubble head for their 10 mins of fame.

he originally designed CNN was that no one was going to out-star the news. He rotated news-readers so none would media stars. No one was to become bigger than the news.

Today the goal it seems is to become a celebrity by using selected 'sexy', sensational news items and proffer from it. If it's not 'sexy' enough, they have a knack of sensationalizing something.

Whoever could imagine that a simple lapel pin could be sensationalized and scandalized?

They design questions to extract the answers they want, then cut the interviewee off before the discussion begins to tell the intellectually honest side of the issue.

Sometimes it's a simple matter of someone else outshining the 'celebrity' newstainer host.

But, I agree with you. So many times I wish they wouldn't cut people off from speaking. Let them finish their thought. I also get irritated when the host thinks he has to make a wise-crack that takes the discussion off-course, and the original point ends up being never made.

What ever happened to just asking basic questions of who, what, when, where, why and how come and let the story go from there? They all could learn from Bill Moyers.

I suppose they use the "reduced attention span" of people as their excuse, while perpetuating the problem. Talk shows are the same way. Remember when they were all ninety minutes, they would go at least ten minutes between commercial breaks, and all guests stayed on the couch throughout the whole show? Now, some celebrity-of-the-moment dashes on, tells one stupid anecdote, plugs their book or movie, then runs off, while we sit through endless commercials before the next idiot appears. And they do exactly the same thing on every show that week.

This is what happens when maximizing profit is the only thing that matters.

:patriot: (several hours of breaking stories) :patriot:

"Missing white woman still missing, fear is on the rise ... "
:wow: :scared: :hide: :patriot:

"Second shark attack in 4 years, fear is on the rise ... "
:wow: :scared: :hide: :patriot:

"Media-made starlet forgets panties, camera crews nearby, fear is on the rise ... "
:wow: :puffpiece: :scared: :patriot:

"Loud-mouth sound byte flavor of the day sans flag-pin, fear is on the rise .... "
:wow: :scared: :hide: :patriot:

"Untalented, big breasted, bottle-blond, supposed-sensation has baby. Judge weeps: who's the daddy?"
:wow: :puffpiece: :patriot:

"Crinkled brown paper sack amid banana peels found in Manhattan trash bin, fear is on the rise ... "
:wow: :scared: :hide: :patriot:

"This just in ... Police hotly chase car down LA freeway, driver unaware ... "
:wow: :donut: :scared: :patriot:

"Sleeper-cells found in Kindergarten classroom napping, fear is on the rise ... "
:wow: :scared: :hide: :patriot:

"Next up, our panel of retired generals to discuss duct tape, Mushroom Clouds, and plastic wrap. What it means for you at home. Fear is on the rise ... "
:patriot: :wow: :nuke: :scared: :hide: :patriot:



:banghead: :puke: :evilfrown:

that the entire news media can be described in one word sentences.. all geared to fear..

Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Beer, Big Insurance, Big Soda -- that's who news anchors work for