Post by TOB on Jun 6, 2021 8:32:41 GMT -5
* Mondays on TV news is just catch up from the weekend. That is fine if you did not watch any news over the weekend. If you did, Monday is a waste unless there is breaking news.
* The terms "bombshells" and "game changer" need to be retired for a while.
* Repeating the same news hour after hour is an idea that has worn out its welcome. If I had a show on cable news now, I would check with other shows to see what they are covering. Then I would try NOT to just repeat what they are doing. They all just repeat...ughhh!
* So much news does not mean you need to cover everything the others do.
* Media is now obsessed with covering an ex-president more than they are reporting on the current one.
* The key to critiquing your own TV networks means calling them out, too.
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* To watch pundits and TV news hosts discuss gain of function as if they always knew what the heck it is, makes me wonder. I admit that I had no idea. So, I would not toss it around as if I was now an expert on it. And because of that, Dr. Fauci thought he could get away with it, knowing we had no idea what it was or is.
* I was watching a newscast and right after news about Israel on came Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez romance news. Come on, I love entertainment but this is NOT news. At least just have a showbiz moment aimed at that type of information. It was on Fox News with Sandra Smith and John Roberts. Hey John, you can go back in the studio now. Or for him, go there for the first time. Something tells me he did not want to give up his White House gig.
* I have a hard time taking any media reported being based at one network. I wonder if there could be a place for them, on their own. Howard Kurtz at Fox News and Brian Stelter on CNN. The latter reports on Fox News almost exclusively, yet works at CNN.
* Now the lab leak story is plausible. It always was but the media dropped the ball.
* Media ignored the back-and-forth answers and indecision of Dr. Fauci as well. I am not here to discuss the politics of it but rather take on the media (my profession for years). You cannot hate one party so much that you fall down on the job. In the past, if you leaned toward one party or idea too much, you gave up that beat. You passed it along to another reporter. You recuse yourself, if you will
* Even fact-checkers let bias in. It is hard not to do that so be honest about it.
* For the record, it is now safe to talk about UFOs. Art Bell did that for years. And Coast to Coast Am thrives still today.
* Notice how Jim Acosta is nowhere now since he was regulated to the weekends on CNN. Nobody wants to work a weekend in TV news.
* There is a difference between a tip a reporter gets and gossip. Too many times they run with the gossip item. But, they think it is news and it surely is not. If the item sounds like it came from people sitting around having a few drinks and out spouts a juicy nugget, pass on it. Have fun with it over drinks but it should not go any further.
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* A recent rerun episode of "20/20" had the show where a hoax angle in the style of "Gone Girl" aired. Nowhere in the two-hour show did it blame the media for this. They only blamed the police on not investigating properly/ However, with these type of stories the media drives home most of the messaging. Media rarely goes back and explains what they did wrong when covering things. Saying "things are fluid" does not work anymore since info is nonstop and misinformation is amplified. It is amplified by media, too. We need to admit that.
* Facebook news is played up too much.
* What appears to be promotions in the media business are not. That is fine because you do not stay at the same job for your entire career. Not the exact same position, that is. Often you want to but are not able to because they want change. They make you change your beat, or switch from reporter to editor, etc. That is not always fun or wanted. I left a newspaper job because they want to change my beat and I did not want that.
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* The terms "bombshells" and "game changer" need to be retired for a while.
* Repeating the same news hour after hour is an idea that has worn out its welcome. If I had a show on cable news now, I would check with other shows to see what they are covering. Then I would try NOT to just repeat what they are doing. They all just repeat...ughhh!
* So much news does not mean you need to cover everything the others do.
* Media is now obsessed with covering an ex-president more than they are reporting on the current one.
* The key to critiquing your own TV networks means calling them out, too.
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* To watch pundits and TV news hosts discuss gain of function as if they always knew what the heck it is, makes me wonder. I admit that I had no idea. So, I would not toss it around as if I was now an expert on it. And because of that, Dr. Fauci thought he could get away with it, knowing we had no idea what it was or is.
* I was watching a newscast and right after news about Israel on came Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez romance news. Come on, I love entertainment but this is NOT news. At least just have a showbiz moment aimed at that type of information. It was on Fox News with Sandra Smith and John Roberts. Hey John, you can go back in the studio now. Or for him, go there for the first time. Something tells me he did not want to give up his White House gig.
* I have a hard time taking any media reported being based at one network. I wonder if there could be a place for them, on their own. Howard Kurtz at Fox News and Brian Stelter on CNN. The latter reports on Fox News almost exclusively, yet works at CNN.
* Now the lab leak story is plausible. It always was but the media dropped the ball.
* Media ignored the back-and-forth answers and indecision of Dr. Fauci as well. I am not here to discuss the politics of it but rather take on the media (my profession for years). You cannot hate one party so much that you fall down on the job. In the past, if you leaned toward one party or idea too much, you gave up that beat. You passed it along to another reporter. You recuse yourself, if you will
* Even fact-checkers let bias in. It is hard not to do that so be honest about it.
* For the record, it is now safe to talk about UFOs. Art Bell did that for years. And Coast to Coast Am thrives still today.
* Notice how Jim Acosta is nowhere now since he was regulated to the weekends on CNN. Nobody wants to work a weekend in TV news.
* There is a difference between a tip a reporter gets and gossip. Too many times they run with the gossip item. But, they think it is news and it surely is not. If the item sounds like it came from people sitting around having a few drinks and out spouts a juicy nugget, pass on it. Have fun with it over drinks but it should not go any further.
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* A recent rerun episode of "20/20" had the show where a hoax angle in the style of "Gone Girl" aired. Nowhere in the two-hour show did it blame the media for this. They only blamed the police on not investigating properly/ However, with these type of stories the media drives home most of the messaging. Media rarely goes back and explains what they did wrong when covering things. Saying "things are fluid" does not work anymore since info is nonstop and misinformation is amplified. It is amplified by media, too. We need to admit that.
* Facebook news is played up too much.
* What appears to be promotions in the media business are not. That is fine because you do not stay at the same job for your entire career. Not the exact same position, that is. Often you want to but are not able to because they want change. They make you change your beat, or switch from reporter to editor, etc. That is not always fun or wanted. I left a newspaper job because they want to change my beat and I did not want that.
O'Brien News Service
www.obriennewsservice.com/