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Would you watch "positive" news programs?
People always seem to clamor for this. Yet, over my lifetime I have seen a couple attempts by local tv stations to do this, and all have failed miserably. I just saw a local tv station on Facebook asking, "What news stories should we feature today?", and several people said they wanted all positive stuff.
I am going to submit that this is an area where people think they know what they want, but really don't. Just as people think and say they want healthy choices from McDonald's, they still order burger and fries and the healthy choices fail. Same here. People think and say they want positive news, but then won't watch it.
I won't pretend. I will freely admit that I do not watch the news for "good" news. I want what I call "hard news". Hard news can be good, such as when a kidnap victim is found safe, but it's usually not. I do appreciate a positive "feel good" story mixed in, absolutely, but honestly I wouldn't even bother to tune in if that's all the program was.
Would you watch "positive" news programs?
People always seem to clamor for this. Yet, over my lifetime I have seen a couple attempts by local tv stations to do this, and all have failed miserably. I just saw a local tv station on Facebook asking, "What news stories should we feature today?", and several people said they wanted all positive stuff.
I am going to submit that this is an area where people think they know what they want, but really don't. Just as people think and say they want healthy choices from McDonald's, they still order burger and fries and the healthy choices fail. Same here. People think and say they want positive news, but then won't watch it.
I won't pretend. I will freely admit that I do not watch the news for "good" news. I want what I call "hard news". Hard news can be good, such as when a kidnap victim is found safe, but it's usually not. I do appreciate a positive "feel good" story mixed in, absolutely, but honestly I wouldn't even bother to tune in if that's all the program was.
Here's what I think: I think every news show should have a segment that features positive news. As an adjunct to the normal news, I think it'd be watched by more people than a whole feel-good thirty minutes.
Agreed. I actually do like something positive within the news program. I like when our local stations have a "Student of the Week", or when a national broadcast profiles a person for making a positive difference in their community. But, honestly, I wouldn't tune in if the entire 30 minutes were that.Here's what I think: I think every news show should have a segment that features positive news. As an adjunct to the normal news, I think it'd be watched by more people than a whole feel-good thirty minutes.
I'd watch an honest news program, that delivered good information about important stories and events that left the viewer feeling not only more informed but also knowledgeable that there's a whole lot more important information out there that just couldn't fit into a single news program.
Most "news" is about making its viewers feel smug and self-righteous in their opinion without challenging them to think, Fox News is the most obvious example of that.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if the news simply got back to actually reporting and leave the commentary and opinion pieces to the talking heads. Too often, in my view, you have a news anchor interacting with a "reporter" and asking him/her their opinion on something or their take on the situation or what they think will happen next. The lines between true reporting and promoting a position have been so blurred that it makes much of news programming a joke.
Agreed. I actually do like something positive within the news program. I like when our local stations have a "Student of the Week", or when a national broadcast profiles a person for making a positive difference in their community. But, honestly, I wouldn't tune in if the entire 30 minutes were that.
I'd watch an honest news program
Personally, I wouldn't mind if the news simply got back to actually reporting
Personally, I wouldn't mind if the news simply got back to actually reporting and leave the commentary and opinion pieces to the talking heads. Too often, in my view, you have a news anchor interacting with a "reporter" and asking him/her their opinion on something or their take on the situation or what they think will happen next. The lines between true reporting and promoting a position have been so blurred that it makes much of news programming a joke.
The prerequisite for that course would be Logical Thinking 101 :tongue4:Schools should teach a mandatory course teaching "how to determine unbiased news sources."
I'd pay some attention to a news venue that wasn't straight up in your face propaganda, As for 'watching' I haven't had
one of those things called TV for over a decade now so it would have to be delivered via the web. I'm fully converted to the
millennial generation short attention theatre ADD/ADHD vidiot mode of information interface. I'm sure you old folks recall back
in the 20th century watching the national news and then your local news. That is all over now.
Looking back when I was a child at the kitchen table eating dinner watching Walter Cronkite tell us during the Tet Offensive
"this war is lost" was all just total liberal media bias
hah cephus! the CIA should be made to broadcast an unfiltered weekly news hour about the goings on in the world to the public.
After all we are paying their paychecks?
how'd that sayin' go?consequence of their FCC license. It was a public service.
If it's all sentimental candy floss, people won't have anyone to make them feel better about themselves. By and large, this only occurs where someone else is suffering. Or dead. The very reason comedy is always at someone's expense. The same reason people get off on watching others endure all manner of atrocities on the big screen. If it's all sweetness and light, the audience runs the risk of being worse off by comparison. A prospect not so lightly borne.Would you watch "positive" news programs? (ETA: The entire program, not just segments)
People always seem to clamor for this. Yet, over my lifetime I have seen a couple attempts by local tv stations to do this, and all have failed miserably. I just saw a local tv station on Facebook asking, "What news stories should we feature today?", and several people said they wanted all positive stuff.
I am going to submit that this is an area where people think they know what they want, but really don't. Just as people think and say they want healthy choices from McDonald's, they still order burgers and fries and the healthy choices fail. Same here. People think and say they want positive news, but then won't watch it.
I won't pretend. I will freely admit that I do not watch the news for "good" news. I want what I call "hard news". Hard news can be good, such as when a kidnap victim is found safe, but it's usually not. I do appreciate a positive "feel good" story mixed in, absolutely, but honestly I wouldn't even bother to tune in if that's all the program was.
hah cephus! the CIA should be made to broadcast an unfiltered weekly news hour about the goings on in the world to the public.
After all we are paying their paychecks?
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