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Originally Posted by Sconesbie
Hmm. I used to work for a local television network broadcasting a national signal. Name will go unmentioned.
Over the last twelve months (I left six months ago) I have found that the news is being gradually filled with what could be easily mistaken for paid commercials. Having what's hot at Coles and Woolies this week, buying trends with retailers with interviews and showcasing large multi nationals, insurance companies, rating washing powder and energy drinks, Choice Magazine having their two cents worth and so on. It is getting very much like Today Tonight and A Current Affair. Thankfully the local Tasmanian content is still news worthy but the national news is getting worse. So what we see on the Sunrise and Today shows gets repeated on the morning shows, then on the morning news, on the afternoon news, on the afternoon variety shows and then again on the nightly news. By six o'clock,, if you've watched tv all day, you've seen the same thing four or five times and is no longer news.
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Agreed. I stopped watching the news a couple of years ago.
Genocide in Syria rates a short mention every now and then, but someone calling an AFL footballer a bad name is apparently important enough to warrant a weeks long saga, with long segments and interviews.