Backlash Growing Against Opinionated News

[Nbadan]

Hannity and Comes and Crossfire beware...


NEW YORK - Is it time to turn down the volume on TV news? A handful of developments this fall suggest a brewing backlash against opinionated news, most personified by those cable segments that set people up to argue political points, or outshout each other.

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism noted an interesting parallel trend in its studies of campaign coverage and public opinion about the news. It characterized only 14 percent of newspaper and TV campaign stories this year as being straight news reporting. The bulk fit reporting into some narrative theme; President Bush tries to recover from his poor first debate performance, for instance.

During the 2000 campaign, the journalism think tank characterized 29 percent more of the stories as straight news, said Tom Rosenstiel, the project's director.

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Comcast (http://www.comcast.net/News/ENTERTAINMENT//XML/1401_TV/9a762d1d-1222-4b83-8378-74ebe307029f.html)

[Hook Dem]

Dan...did you send this to Dan Rather?????????? :lol

[Yonivore]

Dan...did you send this to Dan Rather?????????? :lol
God! You wouldn't believe how much I don't miss these threads...

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Hannity?

Dan, shouldn't you be sending warnings to Rather, the NYT, Washington Post, salon.org, demounderground, Xinhuang (the official Chinese government news site) and all the other BS sources you cite?

[Nbadan]

Oh Yeah, FoxNews never editorializes it's news. :lol

Does Fox News report news?

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Fox News is 100% impartial compared to 100% of the bullshit you post on this forum.

[Nbadan]

100% impartial?!?

:lmao

Yeah, they even spin the spin.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Dude, go back to 4th grade and learn what a comparison is.

[2pac]

Hannity and Comes and Crossfire beware...

You are such an idiot. H&C and Crossfire are OPINION SHOWS. They are not the news.

Opinionated news is going to print or show with something that they know or suspect is false because it makes the right person look bad - i.e. the fake letters about Bush.

[Nbadan]

Opinionated news is going to print or show with something that they know or suspect is false because it makes the right person look bad - i.e. the fake letters about Bush.

Opinionated News is just that Opinion. People can make whatever assertions they want, especially on Fox, because no one is going to challenge them.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Dan, just wondering, how much paint did you sniff as a kid to fuck you up this bad?

[gophergeorge]

Opinionated News is just that Opinion. People can make whatever assertions they want, especially on Fox, because no one is going to challenge them.


Let's see...

"Fox News... We report, YOU decide

[Nbadan]

Could Sean insannity and Rush Limpballs soon be out of a job?


Their guy just won reelection by 3.5 million votes. Their party strengthened its majority in the House, in the Senate and in statehouses, with the Supreme Court probably soon to follow. "Moral values" -- their kind of stuff -- are très chic.

This could be a disaster for the nation's right-wing talk-show hosts.

Election Day was a triumph for conservatism, but it may have been a mixed blessing for the people who yak about it on TV and radio. Conservative talk, by far the most popular kind on the airwaves, has always traded on an undercurrent of grievance, a sense of being the underdog against the implacable, oppressive forces of liberal "elitism." The farther conservatives were from power, the better the Us-vs.-Them model worked. The right-wing media matured and prospered under Democrat Bill Clinton, whose two terms in office were a gift that kept on giving to the Limbaughs, G. Gordons, Savages and lesser lights of the electronic right.

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But Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida who now hosts MSNBC's nightly "Scarborough Country," says the challenge for conservative hosts will be to prove "that we're more than just the Pravda of the right." He adds, "I think that's going to be difficult for some people. I honestly don't know what Sean Hannity is going to be able to talk about. If you've been reading off the Republican National Committee's talking points like he has for the past four years, it's going to be hard to be critical of the status quo."

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Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55425-2004Nov16.html)

Pravda of the Right! Classic! :lol