What’s Killing the News
December 22, 2009 172 CommentsThe news is dying. Have you heard? A slow, innocuous-wound-looking-yet-still-fatal kind of death. The kind of death where you think the bullet only glanced through meaningless cartilage yet really severed a key artery kind of death. That’s a poetic way of saying: NEWS! You’re really going to die. No suture is going to save you. Why? Well, it’s kind of your fault. You were the first to sign up for hive-mind in a way, so stop blaming the ‘Net. You were the first to plug in to some voyeuristic 24/7 exposure that rendered you useless. Rendered you classless, an aside, OK: Rendered you irrelevant. No more integrity or clout or authority, can you retain, after you put a coifed talking head up there at midnight touting breaking news against a green screen backdrop that indicates the latest Pop Tart’s car chase through The Hills. You said, OK, we’ll talk news all day, every day, from now until Apocalypse Now, and that sealed your fate. People used to think you meant something important. Now? They think you’re just another source of entertainment. Why shouldn’t they? Until you stop blathering on for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, about whatever your army of producers can possibly hand you in the form of chicken-stained notes to feed the prompter, until you start editing your Nielsen-hungry selves, you will nevermore be news, or relevant, or important, or integral, to anyone. You killed yourselves. Stop blaming the Internet. Peace, bitches. Suck it. And all that.
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[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] This is why so many people (idiots) like Rush Limbaugh- because he makes them believe he’s giving news, but he’s nothing more than a entertainer, a clown, a jest, a joke.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] I think she’s right that they’re aren’t helping themselves but the internet is playing a bigger part in my opinion.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] As much as i respect this girls point and to an extent she is correct, the fact is that the internet is the main reason for the decline of news media, with unlimited primary source material easily accessible online, along with quick means of social communication the primary function of news shows has been usurped by a growning number of people who are able to find news relevent to them and interpret it their own way.
[..YouTube..] @theresident I know this video is over a year old. I enjoy and agree with you thus far on all the topics you discuss in your videos; that is with regard to the videos I have seen. Yes “the news” has killed itself. But this isn’t from lack of news worthy headlines. Rather, it is due to covering absolute bullshit and even making crap up. Most us Americans however, don’t care about the rest of the world because we are so caught up with being an empirical like nation.
[..YouTube..] @theresident I know this video is over a year old. I enjoy and agree with you thus far on all the topics you discuss in your videos; that is with regard to the videos I have seen. Yes “the news” has killed itself. But this isn’t from lack of news worthy headlines. Rather, it is due to covering absolute bullshit and even making crap up. Most us Americans however, don’t care about the rest of the world because we are so caught up with being an empirical like nation.