Network Newscasters as celebrity icons...

Postman

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Thu Jun-19-08 07:47 PM
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Network Newscasters as celebrity icons...

Edited on Thu Jun-19-08 07:47 PM by Postman

these glorified teleprompter readers serve a purpose for their corporate masters.

It is to become beloved figures in the public mind so as that when these rock-star status "newscasters" tell you something, you can take it to the bank as fact.

Which makes it much easier to propagandize large segments of American society.

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Berry Cool

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Thu Jun-19-08 08:20 PM
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1. How many people watch network news anymore?

I mean the 6:30 weeknight news. Doesn't their audience skew old?

I think what they're doing is reprehensible, but I'm not sure how many people are even listening.

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AlCzervik

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Thu Jun-19-08 08:21 PM
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2. i try and catch the local news and BBC America's nightly news cast.

as for the network news, no thanks, same with cable and their "Opinion shows", not even KO anymore.

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