Let's face it everyday there is more news out there than we care to read and most sources have repetition going on to the tee. Who is out there reporting real news and real factual evidence that the reader can actually grab onto instead of rumor mill gossip? A hard question to answer with our country leaning right and left on issues and the media bias becoming harder to overcome. News articles are more opinion based than ever before with spin becoming the natural evolution to the news. Where are the real reporters? Who wants to give us facts without spin or lies or cover up. This last year has shown the corruption so clearly it was actually comical.
Election results were blurted out before they came in? How was this possible and they were almost beaming at the fact they could get the information before the polls put it out. Across the board the government uses the media and the media uses the government. We just need the news reported, reporting the news has become a sport like wrestling with little gratification. What happened to freedom of speech? What has happened to ethics? What has happened to reporters? They all seek a headline or story that will make them famous. So now we have actors as news reporters? Yes and it has been this way for a long time. I was actually watching a story on a murder that happened in Iowa years ago a reporter that suddenly ended up missing on her way to work. This was a horrible story because to this day years later there is no end to this. No remains and no evidence and no closure for the family. I was shocked by the news reporters she worked with and the reason is it seemed so unreal to me that in their statements they were so blank like nothing was there behind the pretty face. This story was years ago think of how it is now? How is it that this profession has become so desensitized that we just expect them to be perfect and we trust in them? Folks mostly they are reading teleprompters and written copy to us that they probably didn't even write. We just need to hear the news not the spin and not the pretty faces. We have become enamored as a society with actors and celebrities. It is getting worse just look at duck dynasty.
The most popular shows reflect our intelligence and let's see we have a bevy of shows from "Dog the Bounty Hunter" to "Storage wars." In recent years it's become even worse with "Basketball Wives" and "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" If you look at these shows the news seems like diamonds in a bed of rocks. The funny part? well that Alec Baldwin actually got a show contract after all of his abuse in the media towards reporters and photographers. News stations are actually hiring movie actors instead of qualified reporters. Yes folks it is that bad and getting worse. I have personally turned to print and independent papers to get my news and facts straight on world situations and it would be nice to have a local news source that would report just the news and not some article saying nothing in three paragraphs, no facts, no names released and no information here folks we just wanted to stop your day to tell you something happened but we have no idea what it was. This is how bad it is in print because there is nothing to report. Let's just throw stories out there because we have nothing to write! If there is no news how about some good news? Can't we focus on good things? I mean there has to be good things going on despite the political arena and the economy. How about the truth? Is this what we focus on in society? nope. Sensationalism has gotten so out of control that we demand it on large scale. Channels feed to it on large scale. South Park certainly never runs out of material. This needs to change. If we demand quality in our news casters we may just get it.
Supply and demand is how it works. If you like junk reporting keep as you are you are in good company however if you like real news and just the facts, I would suggest reading smaller news sources with real reliability. These guys are getting the stories and the bigger stations are actually reading them to get their stories. Strange but true. In my quest for the evidence of integrity I shall trudge on.
Susan D. Mitchell
Election results were blurted out before they came in? How was this possible and they were almost beaming at the fact they could get the information before the polls put it out. Across the board the government uses the media and the media uses the government. We just need the news reported, reporting the news has become a sport like wrestling with little gratification. What happened to freedom of speech? What has happened to ethics? What has happened to reporters? They all seek a headline or story that will make them famous. So now we have actors as news reporters? Yes and it has been this way for a long time. I was actually watching a story on a murder that happened in Iowa years ago a reporter that suddenly ended up missing on her way to work. This was a horrible story because to this day years later there is no end to this. No remains and no evidence and no closure for the family. I was shocked by the news reporters she worked with and the reason is it seemed so unreal to me that in their statements they were so blank like nothing was there behind the pretty face. This story was years ago think of how it is now? How is it that this profession has become so desensitized that we just expect them to be perfect and we trust in them? Folks mostly they are reading teleprompters and written copy to us that they probably didn't even write. We just need to hear the news not the spin and not the pretty faces. We have become enamored as a society with actors and celebrities. It is getting worse just look at duck dynasty.
The most popular shows reflect our intelligence and let's see we have a bevy of shows from "Dog the Bounty Hunter" to "Storage wars." In recent years it's become even worse with "Basketball Wives" and "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" If you look at these shows the news seems like diamonds in a bed of rocks. The funny part? well that Alec Baldwin actually got a show contract after all of his abuse in the media towards reporters and photographers. News stations are actually hiring movie actors instead of qualified reporters. Yes folks it is that bad and getting worse. I have personally turned to print and independent papers to get my news and facts straight on world situations and it would be nice to have a local news source that would report just the news and not some article saying nothing in three paragraphs, no facts, no names released and no information here folks we just wanted to stop your day to tell you something happened but we have no idea what it was. This is how bad it is in print because there is nothing to report. Let's just throw stories out there because we have nothing to write! If there is no news how about some good news? Can't we focus on good things? I mean there has to be good things going on despite the political arena and the economy. How about the truth? Is this what we focus on in society? nope. Sensationalism has gotten so out of control that we demand it on large scale. Channels feed to it on large scale. South Park certainly never runs out of material. This needs to change. If we demand quality in our news casters we may just get it.
Supply and demand is how it works. If you like junk reporting keep as you are you are in good company however if you like real news and just the facts, I would suggest reading smaller news sources with real reliability. These guys are getting the stories and the bigger stations are actually reading them to get their stories. Strange but true. In my quest for the evidence of integrity I shall trudge on.
Susan D. Mitchell