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Conan: What's wrong with today's news?

Posted December 09, 2015
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Original journalism is clearly dead, and while some of the more ‘unpleasant’ comments on the Youtube posting see the seeds of some kind of massive media conspiracy, all I see here is laziness and endless copying of a PR release.  If any thing it is a conspiracy of banality.

 


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Character-driven journalism is not new to newspapers, though it once was. It was once called The New Journalism in the 1960s — see Truman Capote or Tom Wolfe. Today it is industry standard. Why not take the Sopranos or Breaking Bad formula and marry it to TV journalism? (How many interviews have you seen in The Sopranos? How many Man on the Street soundbites have you seen in Breaking Bad?)


In a recent study by The Reuters Institute, 40% of Americans no longer watch or read the news at all. They find it too depressing. All doom and gloom.


There is a great deal of concern, well placed, that few people under the age of 30 watch TV news. Viewership of TV news in general has fallen off, so naturally, TV executives across the boards are searching for a solution. How to appeal to a demographic that spends most of their time on social media?


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