Reader comments: No news on TV news
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liberal larry | 6:23 a.m. May 10, 2008
Between commercials, mindless banter, teasers, sports, and weather the amount of useful information on the average local local newscast wouldn't fill a 3 by 5 note card.
Denny Andrews | 7:37 a.m. May 10, 2008
Better yet, try someone elses' website. Try the world report on the bbc, for example.
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Oh Please | 7:42 a.m. May 10, 2008
TV journalism went away long ago. Now it's just the latest housefire in West Valley and the latest lowlife stabbing over a case of beer. Just a vehicle for selling trucks, drugs, and furniture. The letter is right -- turn off "Bruce and Deenie" and read the newspaper.
lamonte | 9:04 a.m. May 10, 2008
Robert - your comments are right on the mark. And what drives me crazy is programming that describes itself as news but is nothing more than editorializing. I hate Fox News but I am willing to admit that Keith Oberman (whose opinions and diatribe I enjoy) is no better than Bill O'Reilly. And those folks on "Headline News" should be sanctioned for false advertising. Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him.
John | 11:00 a.m. May 10, 2008
Walter Cronkite? The man who declared his loyalty to a one world government, rather than a Constitutional Republic of America?
The man who fooled everyone into thinking he cared about the United States.
The man who is, basically a communist sympathizer, and a serious socialist?
Yea, we need goof balls like him, like we need more drunken Kennedys and idiotic Clintons and Bushes as our leaders.
Cronkite is anything but an American
The man who fooled everyone into thinking he cared about the United States.
The man who is, basically a communist sympathizer, and a serious socialist?
Yea, we need goof balls like him, like we need more drunken Kennedys and idiotic Clintons and Bushes as our leaders.
Cronkite is anything but an American
As long as we're griping... | 12:41 p.m. May 10, 2008
My most irritating pet peeve about TV news, is when they say some story is coming right up after the commercial, again and again. After about the 3rd advertisement, they FINALLY give a 30 second story.
Why couldn't they use all that time they spend promising us a story to actually tell about it?
Why couldn't they use all that time they spend promising us a story to actually tell about it?
Lewt | 10:25 p.m. May 10, 2008
I fear John's rant about Walter Cronkite, a guy about as American as could have ever lived, tells us far more about John than Cronkite.
Stewart | 11:37 p.m. May 10, 2008
Hey you guys, maybe some folks like to watch house fires and car chases, which are about as interesting as most of the talking heads we have on TV. We are given an endless drivel of meaningless politics. Where is O.J. when you need him?
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Isn't that just part of Rush Limbaugh' "drive-by media" anyway?