[californiadisasters] Re: A why is it?

My earlier defense of the role of the press notwithstanding, sadly, I agree with most of the criticism of TV news. Local newscasts. especially, seem to be nothing but a dreary recitation of all the accidents, murders, traffic and weather they can cram into a half hour. One small exception is the NBC station in Sacramento, which has long had a succession of solid political reporters covering state government and politics. Sadly again, their current one is leaving to go to work for a PR firm. I don't feel good about the chances they will replace him.

BBC is often great. But if you're interested in what's going on in Africa and the Middle East, another surprisingly good service I've tuned into lately is Al Jazeera English's web service. Their hard news coverage is generally excellent, in my view, much of it written and edited by laid-off U.S and British journalists. Just ignore the anti-American rants of their comment and analysis pieces.

Vic

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, newnethboy <kef413@...> wrote:
>
> I found better coverage of the Mississippi River situation on BBC than on US
> sources for a while. (I'm now watching NO TV-Internet sources, including a
> Webcam of Algiers Point. and WWL-TV and CE charts on river stage.)
>
> I just don't watch TV news at all anymore. (And I don't consider PBS's new
> program stream of such sources as al Jaziera to be an improvement!)
>
> Even on the Web news, I found about 10 times as much coverage of the IMF
> president's and Arnold's "issues" than of the plight of thousands of
> Louisiana residents being forced to move from their homes.
>
>
>

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