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No2W2004

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Sun Apr-25-04 10:15 PM
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9. Want to know why the news media is so different?

The networks used to have their own news divisons that were not ratings driven. Think of it! Journalist reporting on stories whithout having to worry about what kind of rating it would pull! That's where we got Murrow, Huntley, Cronkite, Severide and others from.

Then the news divisons got consolodated into the entertainment divisons. Now the news HAD to have good raitings in order to show a profit. Thus, instead of having news that we need to see, we get "news" that pimps the networks new sitcoms.

Corporation news sucks! Find out things for yourself because the networks sure aint gonna do it for ya!

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