Re(4): MLK Day Snow Kansas City Posted on January 16, 2024 at 12:30:23 PM by observer
If you say Killed, body seems a bit redundant. Fact is, why do you watch at all unless you're in the media? Thats a lot of commercials, duplicate weather, and crimes against people who you don't know in a part of town you don't go.
The test I have is, "Why do I need to know this? If you have a desktop and all of us in the bidness, we news junkees, would have one as cheap as they are, and more useful than a tiny toy iphone, well just get on a local email list at one of the stations, and if you see something not thorough enough on your rundown, tune it in.
I did enough news in my time, I know the boilerplate but the names and streets of KCPD's homocide calls or fires aren't important.
My view is that if it doesn't make the email headlines, it's just fillin time between commercials. Corporate TV is just too understaffed to go dig up news that I'd want to know.
So I watch MSNBC like its radio and spend my other TV time interactively surfing the net. I have a big website I manage and narrow interests. I wanna know about being safe from international affairs (I got a kid overseas) and I like politics to a degree.
But even last night after catching MSNBC rag on and on over non-story Iowa, Hannity doing his usual Trump propaganda I got bored and watched a movie.
I watched the last half of 1984 which I hadn't seen for years, and decided hat 40 yr old movie is still up to date about govt propaganda with fake statistics and mindless TV viewers.
Its like watching Fox. Bla-bla. I already know producers don't get out much...second hand news may be new to them, but not to us. We have sooo many interesting choices to see on our little 17 inch monitors. Space, military toys, who's breakin up with whom in Hollywood, the cool inventions the Chinese are puttin up with our money, and of course arguing with bible thumpers to make them question what they read.
Jeez, people are stupid which attests to me that the media I was so idealistic about when I was young, hasn't served them well at all! My kids don't watch; it was quite a while before they even got a TV but little kids learn a lot watching it and they're interested in stuff. Their dad's into podcasts and now, he knows more than I do about so many things.
The nice thing about farting around on the internet is that unlike in the media, ya get a lot of feedback from your readers. All I ever got working the desk was complaints. In 1980, little old ladies would call me and say it just wasn't right seeing women talk about the news. What an eyeopener that was for me.
Last night I saw a clip of a reporter doing a man on the street, asking people who was the president before trump, and we just saw blank stares. Guess today's public schools are just little monasteries where kids read textbooks with a lot of color pictures in em. 1984 was mostly black and white. Replies: