An enlightening conversation with a friend who used to be HR director at a local news station...
I told him that the news is annoying, self promotional, spent too long on things that really didn't matter and glossed over with no depth those things that did.
His reply to me was "if you were impressed by the product, then they are doing it wrong - their main demographic is the low education public who don't spend a whole lot of time reading". It is not for the well informed - it is for the mostly uninformed. And think about how dangerous that is....
What prompted this is the long thread about Joe Scar - which is a touchy subject, because it is certainly an individual (and should be a respected) choice that each of us make as to whether to watch or not watch.
But I thought it would be interesting to share the intent/views of someone on the inside - we all can never, ever forget that no matter what we watch on the TV, there is likely a very specific intent - to either convince us to buy something or think a certain way.
And that, in a nutshell, is why we've decided to pretty much turn it off.
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