Good interview. There was a time when journalism was a blue collar occupation. Then came the snooty elites…
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lets make it 100% soon.
Apply that to MSNBC, CBC News World, CTV and so on.
If it weren’t for their various mandatory cable fee regimes (ever notice how NewsNet, News World and so on are always included in the price of your base TV subscription package?), I suspect that most of the Canadian cable news channels wouldn’t be able to support themselves.
I wasn’t aware that CNN lost their airport lounges contract — that probably explains much of their “loss of ‘viewership’ ” right there.
Up until about 2 or 3 years ago, the Edmonton International Airport used to carry an abridged CBC news channel feed on nearly every monitor in the terminal. Then, suddenly, they were blank and stayed that way up to this past April, which was the last time I flew.
Maybe it’s been restored or replaced since then.
Well Edmonton elected a liberal mayor so I am sure the CBC will be back on
The previous mayor was also a progressive lefty, so I’m not sure what happened.
I suspect that enough people got universal remote controls on their cell-phones and tablets, and started turning them off, that “the system” couldn’t keep up.
Unionized employees need to be specially called up to turn them back on and takes 2 hours to get there. Then the user who didn’t want to watch CBC turns it back off the moment their back is turned.
Good thing CNN has Pfizer to keep them afloat
There was a time when journalism was a blue collar occupation
That was when journalism required actually getting off one’s ass, knocking on doors and ferreting out information. But I’m reminded of Murray’s quote from the 1987(!) Max Headroom:
THEORA (incredulous): Since when has the news been entertainment?
MURRAY (bewildered): Since always.
Before the advent of broadcast journalism, the notion that news was objective and unbiased was ludicrous. Newspapers proudly declared who they were in the tank for. The notion that a smart fellow was one who read multiple newspapers a day wasn’t based on the volume of information; it was based on the fact that someone who knew they had to read multiple papers to get all the different slants on an issues and ferret out the truth in between was a smart fellow.
All news services are biased, including the ones we like. Govern your media consumption accordingly.
Now, to fully understand where the news source stands, read what it reprints as “news”. Who it has as op Ed pundits means nothing.
The Sun chain had right leaning pundits but what it had as news was all far-left propaganda.
Donald Trump probably prolonged the life of CNN for a good five years.
It was a nightmare for the hacks to report on what President Trump had said or done that day, I imagine. It was a joy for viewers to hear the reports. The ratings reflected that.
Nobody gives a damn what Joe Biden read off a teleprompter today.
Donald Trump probably prolonged the life of CNN for a good five years.
I have maintained since Day One that Trump was the best thing that’s happened to CNN since at least the mid-Oughts.
I’m pretty sure that 10% remaining are all Canadians. And CNN didn’t just report on what Trump did or said, they knew what he was thinking.
Trump will come and Trump will go.. They didn’t have to destroy the world because of it..
Cable News is a declining demographic. Most people under 60 get their news from the Internet now. CNN is a dinosaur in that sense.
FoxNews is not news – it is entertainment that tells people what they want to hear. They perfected click bait before it was a thing. The fact that FoxNews ratings dropped when they tried to honestly report the facts on the 2020 election really brought that point home.
It is ironic that when FoxNews hosts are sued for defamation they argue that no reasonable person would treat their claims as fact and the courts agree that is an acceptable defense. It is quite the stunning incitement of the average fox new viewer.
lets make it 100% soon.
Apply that to MSNBC, CBC News World, CTV and so on.
If it weren’t for their various mandatory cable fee regimes (ever notice how NewsNet, News World and so on are always included in the price of your base TV subscription package?), I suspect that most of the Canadian cable news channels wouldn’t be able to support themselves.
I wasn’t aware that CNN lost their airport lounges contract — that probably explains much of their “loss of ‘viewership’ ” right there.
Up until about 2 or 3 years ago, the Edmonton International Airport used to carry an abridged CBC news channel feed on nearly every monitor in the terminal. Then, suddenly, they were blank and stayed that way up to this past April, which was the last time I flew.
Maybe it’s been restored or replaced since then.
Well Edmonton elected a liberal mayor so I am sure the CBC will be back on
The previous mayor was also a progressive lefty, so I’m not sure what happened.
I suspect that enough people got universal remote controls on their cell-phones and tablets, and started turning them off, that “the system” couldn’t keep up.
Unionized employees need to be specially called up to turn them back on and takes 2 hours to get there. Then the user who didn’t want to watch CBC turns it back off the moment their back is turned.
Good thing CNN has Pfizer to keep them afloat
There was a time when journalism was a blue collar occupation
That was when journalism required actually getting off one’s ass, knocking on doors and ferreting out information. But I’m reminded of Murray’s quote from the 1987(!) Max Headroom:
Before the advent of broadcast journalism, the notion that news was objective and unbiased was ludicrous. Newspapers proudly declared who they were in the tank for. The notion that a smart fellow was one who read multiple newspapers a day wasn’t based on the volume of information; it was based on the fact that someone who knew they had to read multiple papers to get all the different slants on an issues and ferret out the truth in between was a smart fellow.
All news services are biased, including the ones we like. Govern your media consumption accordingly.
Now, to fully understand where the news source stands, read what it reprints as “news”. Who it has as op Ed pundits means nothing.
The Sun chain had right leaning pundits but what it had as news was all far-left propaganda.
Donald Trump probably prolonged the life of CNN for a good five years.
It was a nightmare for the hacks to report on what President Trump had said or done that day, I imagine. It was a joy for viewers to hear the reports. The ratings reflected that.
Nobody gives a damn what Joe Biden read off a teleprompter today.
Donald Trump probably prolonged the life of CNN for a good five years.
I have maintained since Day One that Trump was the best thing that’s happened to CNN since at least the mid-Oughts.
I’m pretty sure that 10% remaining are all Canadians. And CNN didn’t just report on what Trump did or said, they knew what he was thinking.
Trump will come and Trump will go.. They didn’t have to destroy the world because of it..
Cable News is a declining demographic. Most people under 60 get their news from the Internet now. CNN is a dinosaur in that sense.
FoxNews is not news – it is entertainment that tells people what they want to hear. They perfected click bait before it was a thing. The fact that FoxNews ratings dropped when they tried to honestly report the facts on the 2020 election really brought that point home.
It is ironic that when FoxNews hosts are sued for defamation they argue that no reasonable person would treat their claims as fact and the courts agree that is an acceptable defense. It is quite the stunning incitement of the average fox new viewer.