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Originally Posted by curves2000
Most of American media and the cable news battles are just such garbage overall, it's not even funny. No wonder America is in such bad shape. If you want to watch a quality, informative and straight down the middle piece, watch PBS Newshour. No ads for anything, so you get to skip the medical ads about all the side effects! They do an excellent job of reporting on issues in very in-depth pieces and they have people on the panel that are rationale, pragmatic and not arguing all the time.
It's a completely different world than the garbage that people watch at CNN, MSNBC, Fox etc. The cable news channels do have their moments but in recent years have become insufferable
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CNN kind of pioneered the whole idea of creating the news rather than just reporting on it. It's all about ratings and creating revenue for the network. Fox took it up to another level, but you're right that most of the content is trash regardless of network. I still find some value in it some times. For example, CNN's budget allows their correspondents to get higher levels of access, but with all these big networks, you have to try to keep in mind what their angle is.
Having access to news 24 hours is nice, but it also means that there is going to be a lot of filler and sensationalism to drum up interest.