Is there too much news on TV?

[Archae]

A local channel, WISN in Milwaukee, has news shows from 4 to 5:30 pm, ABC news at 5:30, then the 6 PM news.

Is this too much?

I DVR the ABC news and the 6 pm news.
That's all.

Now all this is in addition any daytime news, or Internet news.

And forget about the 24/7 news channels.
I'm sick of the talking heads programs.

[Raven123]

1. I don't think so. Too much is broadcast as news that is not news.

Talking heads opining on the latest shiny object, rather than truly informative news.

[Archae]

2. Agreed.

ESPECIALLY on Faux "news."

[BlueIdaho]

3. Yes.

It was obvious after about 6 months of Ted Turner’s bold experiment. All that airtime in search of content has not made America a more informed or better nation.

[Boomerproud]

4. Yes, both local and national.

Starting st 4 in the morning. It's ridiculous.

[brooklynite]

5. Why do you think there's an answer to that question?

You watch as much news as you want. Other watch more or less. TV stations offer as much as the market will support.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. Yes.

And 3/4 of it isn’t news, just filler or rehashing of one story over and over.

I could not stand to have those 24 hr news channels running all day long. Bad enough we have 2 hrs of local news every evening, at noon to 1 pm, and from 4 to 6:30 every afternoon

[Caliman73]

7. No. There is not too much news. There is too much crap that calls itself news.

The problem is that "News" is mixed in with opinion and muddled together.

Most of what you get is opinion about "what the news means" rather than what the facts are and potential consequences of those facts.


When 24/7 cable news came on board, there was a potential to do real, investigative, honest journalism, like when CNN was fortunate enough to be in on the ground floor of the first Gulf War.

Then it just turned into high speed chases with helicopters just following some random criminal evading police. Then Fox came on and right wing propaganda was on cable news, then the cross talk shows, then the opinion shows. The actual journalism never showed up, because thorough investigation and factual reporting aren't really lucrative. The flash and violence, and the outrage is what sells.

The media gives us what we watch and then they focus on it, just like pop music figured out the rhythm, timing, and hooks that get the most ears, the media knows what brings in viewers and it isn't hard hitting, honest journalism.

[Silent3]

8. Nowhere near enough substantive content n/t

[PufPuf23]

9. Not enough informative news, way too much opinion and

propaganda.

The ownership of the media is a primary problem.

[Hugin]

11. Plus one. n/t

[Stallion]

14. My Local Channels Give About 6 Minutes of real "News"

hell they hawk celebrity news, entertainment and even sales at commercial businesses about as much.

[ShazamIam]

10. It isn't news it is partisan propaganda. Very little useful news is presented anywhere. You have to

run around looking at dozens of sites like, Salon, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Vice, Vox, Intercept, progressive voices, free speech dot org and ..., ..., ... dozens of actual news as information about an event or law, scattered like dandelion duff by the wind.
Even all those people talking away on manbc, They are trying to direct our thinking and I notice they are not always truth talking and a few of them are very manipulative.

[llmart]

12. Yes.

I don't watch much TV news, but I have noticed that on the main channels that you get over the air have way more news slots than they used to. I don't have cable and haven't for about 15 years. Don't miss it. I usually catch the morning local news and ABC Nightly News and that's enough for me. When I log into DU I can pick and choose what I want to read or see.

[pstokely]

13. it's cheaper

and there are no Oprah's anymore

[onenote]

15. What an odd question.

Nobody is forced to watch. There are literally hundreds of other options.