Re: Legit complaint about TV News

On 2024-12-08 8:57 PM, shawn wrote:

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 20:37:05 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

On 2024-12-08 4:19 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 12/8/2024 2:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Dec 8, 2024 at 10:10:09 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1h9jjee/
us_corporate_media_is_proving_to_be_more/

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He says as if all the other complaints about the garbage media aren't
legitimate.

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"All the other complaints" tend to be wing-prone, right or left ...as
distinct from this general observation of real news being ignored.
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Did you JUST fall off the turnip truck?
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When TV first started showing news back before you were born, they did
it as a public service and didn't even expect to make any money on it.
But then they noticed that advertisers were willing to pay big bucks for
ads on the news. That was the point at which their priorities changed.
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The BBC on the other hand has no ads and gets its money strictly from
the licence fee that Brits pay. In other words, they have an entirely
different business model and entirely different priorities.
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Your complaint is that apples aren't the same as oranges. Most of us
already know that.

 But there are other international news agencies that don't follow the
US model. Mostly because they can't afford to skip the news from
around the world as their audiences are international. I suppose there
may be Chinese news agencies that cover only Chinese based news
because the market place is big enough to make that worth while. The
US market is big enough to make it worth focusing just on news that
directly impacts the USA which way too often means ignoring news from
across the world and because the 24 news channels are businesses they
will focus on what brings in the $$$. Which means focusing on US
centric news because that is what the majority of viewers want/care
about.

EVERY news organization has its own business model and each will be different from the others, even in the US, let alone other countries.
For example, some US outlets tend to favour conservative viewers while others tend to court the "progressive" audience. The US - and probably other countries as well - even has news services that focus on specific foreign countries and not necessarily in a positive way. For instance, China Uncensored is an American-operated YouTube channel looks only at China and in a way that is clearly hostile to the CCP.
The complaint that moviePig highlighted in his post was one where someone was saying that BBC had a lot of coverage of the fall of Assad's regime while US outlets had far less coverage. I pointed out why in a very general way given the very different models used in the US and Britain.
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Rhino