Well, for those of you who do not know I watch the news very often. Whether it is the local stations or the national ones, ESPN news-SportsCenter, or an actual news program I watch some of it.
It comes from middle school and high school where there was nothing else to watch after school so I'd watch the hour and a half to two hours of news in the early evening. Well that formed a habit of watching the news to which I carry now, though I mostly watch it on Paul's TIVO.
With that being said Paul and I have a great time some nights critiquing NBC's national news followed by KARE-11's local news. We have a great time critiquing lighting, clothing, set design, studios, news worthy stories, how stories are produced but especially Mike Pomeranz and Randy Shaver. They're characters.
Finally, here is my point for today.
Celebrities are covered excessively on national and local news. In my approximate 17 minutes of watching the national news programs this morning, NBC's Today Show and CBS' Good Morning America, TWO!, TWO!, TWO! stories were about celebrities! One was about celebrities drinking problems featuring Danny Bonaduce and the other was about how Angelina Jolie will now talk to her dad as not father-daughter but friend to friend.
And the worse part of all of this is now it's on my blog complaining about it! It's pathetic. You know what, I want NEWS covered-significant happenings for a majority of America-should be on these programs, not the latest celebrity drunkard or his sobriety or even a father-daughter or "friend" relationship. That's not news, that's an actual problem that these two people and their families need to tend to, not us as Americans.
So, news directors and producers everywhere take note! Cover the news, cover the significant, cover what will progress society! Oh yeah, and society, turn off your TV's when you get a stupid insignificant story!
I must now go to work or I will be late.
Make it a good day! :)
3 comments:
I find it interesting that we cover things and watch things like Jolie or Bonaduce but we are clueless when it comes to simple current events that are happening worldwide.
May I suggest trying to find BBC news programming...I think you might like it.
Eric
I wonder though is there "real" news that would be reported? Reporters can add their own twists and ties. Sometimes I don't even wanna know it either. For example the gas-it could be $10 soon or there could be a famine. Don't tell me that.
I will take the BBC into account though I don't think we get it, or will in a month. I'm not saying find the smallest current event, basically I'm saying they need to revamp the structure/programming of a newscast. (ie-making them shorter and more relevant)
"Real" news is a challenge. The hogwash they get away with is not acceptable.
Should I be a news director?
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