Jack Dawson
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A different point of view
I think it is pretty known the Big 3 networks are dying. Someone earlier wrote they have more commercials and less in-depth coverage. That is true and that mean Less Liberal News also. The Big 3 have gone to a lot of 'fluff' reporting instead of 'hard news. When I was in radio news, we covered ALL sides of the story and generally there were many more than simply 'both sides' there was 'all sides". That is not being done any more and radio news has been replaced by cable news networks. Radio like Clear Channel will own up to 6 to 8 stations in a market and you will hear exactly the same newscast on all of the stations and none of the news will be local.
The thing Americans need to watch in the complete control of the media some companies are getting. It used to be you could own one AM and One FM station in a market and either a TV station or a newspaper but not both. Now you can own what ever you can pay for. Liberal of Conservative that is a danger to all of us.
I think it is pretty known the Big 3 networks are dying. Someone earlier wrote they have more commercials and less in-depth coverage. That is true and that mean Less Liberal News also. The Big 3 have gone to a lot of 'fluff' reporting instead of 'hard news. When I was in radio news, we covered ALL sides of the story and generally there were many more than simply 'both sides' there was 'all sides". That is not being done any more and radio news has been replaced by cable news networks. Radio like Clear Channel will own up to 6 to 8 stations in a market and you will hear exactly the same newscast on all of the stations and none of the news will be local.
The thing Americans need to watch in the complete control of the media some companies are getting. It used to be you could own one AM and One FM station in a market and either a TV station or a newspaper but not both. Now you can own what ever you can pay for. Liberal of Conservative that is a danger to all of us.