News Media in the Toilet.

If you want to understand why the news media in this country rates either at the bottom of near the bottom of trusted organizations take a look at your news leads today. Better yet try to avoid if you are looking for news the wall to wall non stop talking heads spilling out comments or breaking news on the News Corp. situation. Now note I am of like mind that the reporters and editors at the London newspaper went beyond what would be considered by about anyone acceptable ends to get info for their readers. Even with the relaxed standards of the UK press. However as I look now at least four networks are carrying the hearing in London wall to wall. This is AMERICAN networks doing this coverage of a news event, most people in the USA could care less about. Now yes part of this is the news media enjoying the fact that their despised nemesis Rupert Murdoch is getting what they consider his comeuppance. But none of this will change the facts of news coverage going forward in this country, and it sure will not bring back the once high credibility and respect the news media had here.

What this does really show is the incessant piling on to what the news media considers stories that have salaciousness that will garner ratings. In that attempt they use whatever news source, any source,  or considered facts that enable and enhance their agenda style reporting. Remember the Gulf oil spill from last summer and how the the Atlantic Ocean beaches were going to be destroyed by that event. How about the earthquake in Haiti and how bad it was, heard anything about that recently. I suppose we should be happy they have moved on from Caylee Anthony trial, but MOVED ON they have. I could list a dozen such events now, but do not want to waste the time.

If you were an investor in news media stocks the past decade you know what has happened to your holdings. This is the reason why, lazy and lousy reporting and editing. There was a time, and I worked in the media then, when this kind of news coverage would never happen. My career location at one time led me to be involved with the 1988 hostage taking at The Robesonian in Lumberton. The day after the hostage taking the entire staff of the newspaper participated in getting out the newspaper. We all had extra duty, I remember that I was asked to be one of several people to help edit that day's newspaper to make positively absolutely sure we were not making mistakes or making ourselves more of the story than just the facts. That kind of reporting my friends is today gone with the wind.