more on "Mid Air Dinner Menu" is "Breaking News?" - idiocy!!

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () bbiw net>
Date: August 21, 2006 9:30:56 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com, Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Subject: Re: [IP] "Mid Air Dinner Menu" is "Breaking News?" - idiocy!!

Richard and Dave,


A thought:

> Begin forwarded message:
> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
...
> This is the onscreen graphic for MSNBC at the moment, and the  
> funniest thing
> I've seen on television in a long time:
...
> Truly, no detail is unimportant in the world of the 24-hour cable news
> networks.


Funny is exactly what it should be.  It is entertainment, not news.

It is not intended to be news, no matter how it is packaged or what  
it claims
about itself.

Journalism is a real profession, with real standards.  Entertainment  
is not
prohibited but it is not the focus.  So-called cable news channels  
typically
work quite hard to entertain and do not care much about journalistic  
standards.

So the only thing that might be interesting about the "breaking news"  
example,
or any of the other, supposedly outrageously-bad services, is that  
anyone would
take them seriously.

d/

--

  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net


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