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Originally Posted by Stumptown
I blame the internet for this development. The networks see themselves as competing against bloggers now, instead of competing against each other as professional journalists. Of course, everyone on the internet is an expert in their own mind, reacting to events (because they only have second-hand information, it's necessarily reactive), and the talking heads on TV have fallen into that same mindset.
And now that the major news (*cough* CNN) networks are relying more on completely untrained, random "experts" to "report" the "news" via YouTube and Twitter - they've almost completely removed real journalism from their programming.
If the news networks are actually serious about competing in this new environment, they need to get back to providing a service that the internet can't, instead of integrating the weakest aspects of internet-based "reporting" into their own programming. And bless Jon Stewart (and many others) for calling them out on their lazy practices.
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CNN and the other news networks were doing this type of lazy journalism long before the internet became something to care about. The internet is not and never has changed anything despite what the "blogosphere" thinks.
Journalists are now using the internet and social media (poorly I might add) to further their opinionated bullcocky to the masses who eagerly eat it up because it's easier to agree with a formed opinion then it is to actually critically think about it.