loss of faith in televised news

GerardB

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SlabMurphy

I have little faith in the mainstream news, tv or print. The web is often a better source, that's if you can pick out the truth from the BS.

mickoneill30

It's depressing. I suppose bad news sells but there is some stuff happening in Ireland every so often, how about reporting that. It really annoys me when they report stuff like X is up 25% without telling us the number. 25% could be 2, 10 or 1000. It's just lazy and sensationalistic. Another annoying part is when they have an item and then they go out to the uninformed guy on the street to get an opinion. Eh no thanks I can get the uninformed opinion in my office. I'd like the news to have experts please.

RTE News + TV3 News + Daily Mail readers = scary.

Maybe my post should be in ranting and raving.

Elmo

GerardB wrote: »

convince me rte news is worthwhile
i wrote that as i felt it, expect me to digress and seemingly contradict myself
but essentially i don't like tv news

Why does it always come down to RTÉ? Unfortunately RTÉ's competitor are driving this decent into depressing/scary type news reporting. RTÉ do need to take a step back and think what else should their be on the news. But it also competes with Sky News and BBC News which have both started going down that scary road.

i want a revaluation of what rte considers newsworthy.
i want a revaluation of what people deem newsworthy.

Seems to me you want people to hear what you think they should hear. Ironically.

why do we only see politicians when they're telling us what they want us to hear in carefully planned press statements?
or when they're being interviewed for up to 5 whole minutes?

If you want a easy interview take one with a Newsreader. Sometimes Anne Doyle steps up to the mark, but generally they are unused to the situation of having to really take to someone that the 5 mins they have with them is feeble with allot of thank yous at the end. If I want a good interview with a politician I won't watch any news programme on any station that is what Current Affairs programming is for.

why do we pay our tv licenses to be told of this?
why don't they put their funding to use and get real work done?

It is a strange thing the licence fee but it doesn't just pay for one programme on RTÉ but it has to be spread across the service.

GerardB

Elmo wrote: »

Why does it always come down to RTÉ?

Because that's what my family watches when we eat dinner. I posted this a few minutes later

Elmo wrote: »

Seems to me you want people to hear what you think they should hear. Ironically.

Yes i see it now xD i just wanted it to be known that its not what i want to hear

It is a strange thing the licence fee but it doesn't just pay for one programme on RTÉ but it has to be spread across the service.

Yeah bringing up the license fee was weak, but still don't think its a good cause (another topic for another post)

digme

Don't watch tv the, i certainly don't any more, i gave up around 2001.

Elmo

theothernews wrote: »

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Are you allowed pimp out your own websites on boards?

Elmo

theothernews wrote: »

i dunno... is that what i am doing?

i am merely engaging the community with new information.

It seems to me that you are no better than the same news with your online marketing tactics. I better your head of The Same News in disguise.

ToniTuddle

Barely watch TV anymore hardly get the chance.
News does disappoint though.

REALLY hate it when they say the journalist/reporter is in let's say L.A and they have some digital photo of the Hollywood sign behind them -.-
Liars you aint in L.A you sitting on the loo or something :mad:

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Elmo wrote: »

Are you allowed pimp out your own websites on boards?

Nope, it's called Spam

Teddy Chips

A country full of moaners and begrudgers and you're looking for a hard sell on good news. Forget about it, we thrive on this darkness.

Cunsiderthis

digme wrote: »

Don't watch tv the, i certainly don't any more, i gave up around 2001.

I am the same and haven't watched tv news for years. The problem is that you have to just sit and watch what the editor wants to feed you, and when the news became like the Sun newspaper on tv, I gave up watching. At least with a newspaper I can skip articles I don't want to read.

The net is a great resource for reading newspapers, and I look at newspapers from around the world most days, and scan through to see articles I want to read.