Post by bob quarteroni on Aug 24, 2013 11:03:34 GMT -5
It is, and -- especially in the mornings -- it's not even close.
ABC and NBC's morning "news" shows are travesties: about 90 seconds of news at the start and then right into celeb updates,
fashion, royals watching and endless puff.
CBS is doing a good job: With Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell they do deliver -- easily -- the most news in the morning.
Al Jazeera, give them a watch. They are striving to do what laughable Fox claims to do: be fair and impartial.
Here's the Buenos Aires newspaper take on it.
For the love of God someone write something!!!!
more sophisticated public relations tactics.
In the United States, where the market rather than the government is the main driving force behind the news, there is a newcomer that promises to cause some stir. Al Jazeera launched its local cable news channel (@ajam), hoping to seize a middle ground gap in the highly polarized media scenario dominated by the opinionated conservative Fox News and the liberals MSNBC and CNN.
Al Jazeera’s launch tagline for its US version was “Real News for the Real People,” picking up from a Hillary Clinton argument before Congress during her time as Secretary of State, when she said the US was losing “the information war” because networks like Al Jazeera, unlike those in the US, were delivering “real news” rather than “a million commercials and arguments between talking heads.” Al Jazeera announced it would only include an average of six minutes of commercials per hour — contrasting the some 15 minutes carried by its competitors. The New York Times described the launch of Al Jazeera as “the most ambitious US television news venture since Rupert Murdoch started the Fox News Channel in 1996.” A Financial Times US writer called it “a much-needed alternative view.”
Funded by the emir of Qatar, Al Jazeera has an audience of some 260 million homes in 130 countries globally. Its new US version is finding some difficulty getting distributors, in part because it is still perceived by some as being anti-US for its role during the post 9/11 wars. As it started up on Tuesday, it reached some 48 million of the 100 million US homes subscribed to television.
Al Jazeera’s mission of “just delivering news and in-depth reporting” fits a pop culture Zeitgeist dominated by Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom HBO series but has a stronger potential for political impact rather than mayor audience success. Who says, after all, that the public “just” wants unbiased news? As Argentina makes a rare attempt at argumentative resolution of conflict in its own media imbroglio next week, there will be a new chance for rationality. Conflict, however, still seems to be more popular these days.
@mjotagarcia
ABC and NBC's morning "news" shows are travesties: about 90 seconds of news at the start and then right into celeb updates,
fashion, royals watching and endless puff.
CBS is doing a good job: With Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell they do deliver -- easily -- the most news in the morning.
Al Jazeera, give them a watch. They are striving to do what laughable Fox claims to do: be fair and impartial.
Here's the Buenos Aires newspaper take on it.
For the love of God someone write something!!!!
more sophisticated public relations tactics.
In the United States, where the market rather than the government is the main driving force behind the news, there is a newcomer that promises to cause some stir. Al Jazeera launched its local cable news channel (@ajam), hoping to seize a middle ground gap in the highly polarized media scenario dominated by the opinionated conservative Fox News and the liberals MSNBC and CNN.
Al Jazeera’s launch tagline for its US version was “Real News for the Real People,” picking up from a Hillary Clinton argument before Congress during her time as Secretary of State, when she said the US was losing “the information war” because networks like Al Jazeera, unlike those in the US, were delivering “real news” rather than “a million commercials and arguments between talking heads.” Al Jazeera announced it would only include an average of six minutes of commercials per hour — contrasting the some 15 minutes carried by its competitors. The New York Times described the launch of Al Jazeera as “the most ambitious US television news venture since Rupert Murdoch started the Fox News Channel in 1996.” A Financial Times US writer called it “a much-needed alternative view.”
Funded by the emir of Qatar, Al Jazeera has an audience of some 260 million homes in 130 countries globally. Its new US version is finding some difficulty getting distributors, in part because it is still perceived by some as being anti-US for its role during the post 9/11 wars. As it started up on Tuesday, it reached some 48 million of the 100 million US homes subscribed to television.
Al Jazeera’s mission of “just delivering news and in-depth reporting” fits a pop culture Zeitgeist dominated by Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom HBO series but has a stronger potential for political impact rather than mayor audience success. Who says, after all, that the public “just” wants unbiased news? As Argentina makes a rare attempt at argumentative resolution of conflict in its own media imbroglio next week, there will be a new chance for rationality. Conflict, however, still seems to be more popular these days.
@mjotagarcia