February 16, 2010
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If you didn't already know this by now, let me tell you. Television News can be such a joke to watch. TV News may give you information about current events, but it's still like any TV show that cares more about getting ratings. BTW, the NBC 11PM local news programs complaining about their low ratings, due to having "The Jay Leno Show" as a bad lead-in, is what eventually led to the events of Conan O'Brien leaving the Tonight Show.
Every time I see TV news, there's always something that's ridiculous about how they conduct themselves, that it's honestly embarrassing to watch at times. So many things to complain about, here are just a few....
- They tease you about a news story that you have to wait 20 minutes for; which completely kills the idea that this is a useful program that is suppose to give you information.
- "Storm Watch." They make it seem like it's the end of the world when bad weather comes in, and then have reporters asking people on the street what they think about it (when will they learn, year after year, the same responses).
- Field reporters who are reporting from an area that only "looks like" the actual area where the real news is. Sometimes they just stand in front of some miscellaneous area that has nothing to do with the actual story, but is there because they need to have some "live on the scene" type shot.
- It's also bad when you know more facts about a news report than the reporters telling it. "Get you facts straight!"
- "Fluff pieces." 'nuff said there
Most recently, some of the annoying traits by TV News unfortunately showed up when they were reporting on the death of Olympic Luger N. Kumaritashvili. First they warn you about how graphic the video footage of the accident is, and then they proceed to show it over and over again, with slow-mo footage, plus multi-angle shots. In one news report I've seen, they transition that particular sad news story immediately into another story that starts with the field reporter saying "It's quite a party out here" with this big smile on his face. Yeah TV News, real respectful there.
If you want the news, you'll have better luck with the internet than with TV News.
Comments (4)
and that's why i avoid tv news =P
Bah! TV news is infotainment. I have RSS feeds of all the news I care about now. It's even categorized for me. If you really want to get advanced you can use an intelligent news feeder like RSS Owl that can suggest interesting news based on articles you've read earlier. I'm just too paranoid of anything that tracks my reading patterns.
Also this conversation came up with a group of friends recently. TV in general is going away. Several people I know are just cutting to basic cable or over the air broadcasts mixed with Netflix. Everyone timeshifts anyway so for the most part just watch the entire season when it comes out on Netflix. I hate cliffhangers and commercials anyway. I actually, I just watched BSG in it's entirety in a span of 2 weeks (accelerated at doublespeed of course).
After getting the time wasters out of the way I have time to do more important stuff like play piano or guitar (now I'm trying to learn violin but that's gonna take a long while yet), coach kids at fencing, practice martial arts with buddies or learn random new stuff at school or at work.
I agree everything on tv is a ratings game now. its not even worth watching tv anymore. Well unless you like reality shows. i'd rather not watch some rich girls reality tho, I have my reality to worry about
@myotismon3 - well I'm slowly and surely watching less TV shows as time goes by, BUT there are good TV out there (like LOST for example). Definitely stay away from reality TV though.
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