"Does Backlash Loom Against Opinion News?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

NEW YORK (AP) - 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.

One event drew a lot of attention: Jon Stewart's public scolding of CNN's "Crossfire" hosts. Others received little notice, like ABC News President David Westin's impassioned defense of objective reporting in a speech delivered at Harvard University.

Take a stopwatch to a day's coverage on a cable news network and measure how much time is spent on people talking about the news than on actual reporting, Westin said. Compare that to five years ago and he bets there's a lot less time spent on reporting today.

"There are very understandable reasons why," he said in an interview. "It is easier and cheaper and, frankly, more vivid and attractive to an audience to put on very strongly expressed opinions."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20041115/D86BV4TG0.html

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[Proud2BAmurkin]

1. Kill your cable TV

otherwise why not just join the GOPuke party

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Well LINKTV, FSTV, TDS, and COUNTDOWN w/ Keith Olbermann are all ok

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[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. a dollar to them means 100 dollars to Fox and Fox clones

kill your cable

[aquart]

2. Easy and cheap, like a two dollar whore?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. That is too cheap. I wouldn't let myself go for under $20.

j/k :P

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[el_gato]

5. the idea of "objective" news is spurious