The Future of News Reporting

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This just reaffirms my view that news reporting has become more over the top and for "entertainment" value than actually reporting the news.

Hasn't Fox News always been this? But in any case, as long as any news outlet is funded by advertising it will always shift towards attention grabbing entertainment and sensationalism to boost ratings/circulation. To have a news network that avoids this trap you'd need it to be funded in some other way than advertising revenue... like say a liscence fee for owning a television...

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like say a liscence fee for owning a television...

It's a horrible system, over here they went even further and made it a tax - literal tax that everyone has to pay so that the national broadcasting system stays up.

I give it the middle finger and just come up borderline non-existent things in my tax report. They ain't getting a penny from me.

[Reeve]

"Hey guys, I found this thing on Twitter, let's just put it on the news! Oh, actual investigation? Screw that, this is 21st Century Fox!"

[Pipebomb]

It's quite fitting how the new Newsroom looks like out of Star Trek or some other sci-fi, considering they mostly deal in fiction.

A bit off topic, but the NSA built a war-room replica of the Star Trek ship

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...nder-star-trek

[Zonas]

I really don't care about them trying to make it "entertaining" it's just a sad truth of what will eventually happen. (I personally can't wait for the newstation in Idiocracy) I'd just like to see the news, not filtered through specific agendas and biased bullshit.

[belfpala]

"Hey guys, I found this thing on Twitter, let's just put it on the news! Oh, actual investigation? Screw that, this is 21st Century Fox!"

HERE have a cat pic with captions! OBAAAAAAAAMA!

Edit: No cat pic included in this post. Sorry.

[Raptor With a Saber]

Was Hoping this was about how the Media has become the worst form of news reporting since the carrier pigeon.

[belfpala]

Was Hoping this was about how the Media has become the worst form of news reporting since the carrier pigeon.

At least carrier pigeons carry their biases openly. Just feed them some seeds and they're your best friend.

[Macedonicus]

Was Hoping this was about how the Media has become the worst form of news reporting since the carrier pigeon.

Sorry. Its just a bunch of old people that think giant touch screen tablets are "technological advances" and revolutionary.

[DeltrusDisc]

I kinda want one of those 55inch touchscreens...imagine playing WoW on that with touch

But it's all overkill. Give me a plain, simple room with a desk, two unbiased people, and the news and I'm happy.

HAH.

Silly Darsithis, unbiased is for dogs.

[Endus]

All those screens with pointless and irrelevant info just end up reminding me of this;

[Yvaelle]

I kinda want one of those 55inch touchscreens...imagine playing WoW on that with touch

But it's all overkill. Give me a plain, simple room with a desk, two unbiased people, and the news and I'm happy.

The Young Turks, perhaps?

[paralleluniverse]

I wouldn't be so dismissive just yet.

Show me a video of their news broadcast using this room.

Then we can judge.

[Blade Wolf]

It's quite fitting how the new Newsroom looks like out of Star Trek or some other sci-fi, considering they mostly deal in fiction.

Well said, good sir. Well said

[Twoflower]

First of all, it's fox, so it's certainly not the future of "news" reporting.

Second : some new, slightly bigger screens and all a sudden we are in the future ? Dont think so. It's just a new studio decoration.

The Young Turks, perhaps?

He said unbiased.

[Yvaelle]

First of all, it's fox, so it's certainly not the future of "news" reporting.

Second : some new, slightly bigger screens and all a sudden we are in the future ? Dont think so. It's just a new studio decoration.



He said unbiased.

TYT is probably as close to unbiased as we get these days :/ Their opinion pieces are obviously from their perspective, but they don't follow the preachy talking points that the US left/right split media both read from (which is not to say that MSNBC is as bad as Fox, because Fox is a league of it's own). When they report stories, its usually pretty decent (though I've seen a drop in quality in the last week).

[Skippy88]

I kinda want one of those 55inch touchscreens...imagine playing WoW on that with touch

Can you imagine? Instead of using the keyboard or mouse to activate your spells you have to touch the spells on the screen instead. You would get a good workout over a boss fight.

[Payday]

TYT is probably as close to unbiased as we get these days :/ Their opinion pieces are obviously from their perspective, but they don't follow the preachy talking points that the US left/right split media both read from (which is not to say that MSNBC is as bad as Fox, because Fox is a league of it's own). When they report stories, its usually pretty decent (though I've seen a drop in quality in the last week).

I don't get the obsession with TYT, and I would say they are far from unbiased. It's still all that blubbering idiots opinion, no matter which way the bias happens to swing on that given day. MSNBC is just as bad as FOX, the only difference is they don't try to deceptively repackage and hide it like FOX does.

PBS Newshour is really as close as it gets, in my opinion. This is coming from somebody that watches a lot of FOX News.

[Ciddy]

It's quite fitting how the new Newsroom looks like out of Star Trek or some other sci-fi, considering they mostly deal in fiction.

Aaaaaaand we have a winner. We're done here, folks.

[Kraenen]

talk about big government being a waste...