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Originally Posted by DementedReality
i never understood why "weather" is news .. especially in this information age. Do I really care what the temps accross the country are?
One time I saw a US ad for their local weather and they were bragging how they could tell me the weather "RIGHT OUTSIDE MY WINDOW". Well great,thats helpful to me? Cant I look out the window myself?
Anyhow, never mind the weather, whats the point of the news even. Usually they do a terrible job of covering an issue and by the time its on TV, its already old news. Guess they havent heard of this new thing called the internet! The news as a TV program is becoming more and more irrellevent.
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A bit of a different issue, but I'm not sure TV news will ever be totally irrelevant. The problem (and strength) with the internet is anybody can post there, whether they are telling the truth or not. At least in the traditional mediums there is some degree of responsibility and oversight; there are checks in place to attempt to get the story right, it takes more than one person to attempt to publish a story.
My personal belief is that if TV news is in trouble because of the internet it is because it is trying to be too muck like the internet. Publishing stories without vetting them. Publishing based on rumours in attempts to get a "scoop". These are areas traditional news cannot beat the internet. And when the trustworthiness of traditional media becomes as questionable as the internet then the traditional forms of the media become irrelevant.
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