Comments on: Most broadcast news more opinion orientated than newsworthy

By: Chalkscarwiz

Chalkscarwiz — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:00:07 +0000

Oh oh oh. I once saw Glenn Beck crying only a few minutes before making a comment about how Sarah Palin is a hot grandma. That guy is always crying…

I don’t watch CNN hardly ever but it seems like their website is akin to People magazine and most of their science and technology news is about facebook and twitter.

By: g0disdead

g0disdead — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:51:14 +0000

@ Rachel T:

You don’t get it, do you? The coverage of all of the networks noted here are bias. You would choose FOXnoise? Their coverage is laced with political bias. And it supports subtly racist ideologies and backward ass politics. Not that MSNBC is any better, they do the same on the other end.

Those who are smart, those who want news–not spun stories–listen to the BBC.

By: Rachel T.

Rachel T. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:14:34 +0000

From Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism–
In the last six weeks of the 2008 campaign:

Fox News: Tone of McCain coverage – 40% negative, 22% positive
Tone of Obama coverage – 40% negative, 25% positive

CNN: Tone of McCain coverage – 61% negative, 13% positive
Tone of Obama coverage – 39% negative, 36% positive

MSNBC: Tone of McCain coverage – 73% negative, 10% positive
Tone of Obama coverage – 14% negative, 43% positive

Based on these numbers, I would choose Fox News… if I weren’t stuck with awful cable that only carries CNN and Headline News.

(http://www.journalism.org/print/13437)

By: g0disded

g0disded — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:05:03 +0000

Mr. Hoffman’s comments are spot on in this age of media paranoia. We have those on the right screaming for neutrality, those on the left screaming against bi-partisan politics, and the news conglomerates are feeding the flame.

By: p00psmith

p00psmith — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:37:30 +0000

Bromancer makes some very valid points.

French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard noted, “we live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning” (79). In the postmodern age, “information produces meaning (a negentropic factor), but it cannot make up for brutal loss of signification in every domain. Despite efforts to reinject message and content, meaning is lost and devoured faster than it can be reinjected” (79). This is crucial to the discussion Mr. Hoffman has touched upon in his article. The problem with our society is that we are barraged by senseless images and advertisements; we cannot possibly filter all of the information that is coming at us all at once. What complicates this is that people often do not realize they are being interpolated into a highly capitalistic society, and we become zomboids.

By: iloveglennbeck

iloveglennbeck — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:47:17 +0000

I love Glenn Beck. I love his subtle racism. I love how he reminds me of the days of segregation. Man, if there was never any change in this country we would still have slaves. Wouldn’t that help our economy?

I love America.

By: Linus

Linus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:29:57 +0000

My fellow libertarians! Do not give in! Glenn Beck is the light!

RONPAUL2008

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:36:11 +0000

I’m very amused that Cynic takes the time to criticize others who made typos in their comments and then makes one himself/herself.

By: Nick Smith

Nick Smith — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:22:43 +0000

I would very much agree with the statement that people don’t tend to know the difference between news and editorial anymore.
I myself wrote an anti-Fox News column for the paper I work at this past week and we’ve started to get a steady stream of feedback. Slightly more negative than positive. I fully expected it, and I can tell people don’t know the difference when they attack my day-to-day hard news material that isn’t editorial in their rebuttals to me instead of virtually anything in the column itself. Also, I might add that the socialist slams from people who have no argument is beginning to get old in general.

By: garylewis234

garylewis234 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:10:06 +0000

This guys a marxist! Dont u understand that there doing us all a favor by earning ratings? That’s more money for the economy. Straight news isnt entertaining at all.