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| View Poll Results: Which part of the news are you LEAST interested in? | |||
| Local news |
  
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3 | 3.49% |
| National news |
  
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0 | 0% |
| International news |
  
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1 | 1.16% |
| Weather |
  
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2 | 2.33% |
| Business |
  
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10 | 11.63% |
| Sports |
  
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37 | 43.02% |
| Politics and Law |
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8 | 9.30% |
| Entertainment (music, movies, celebrity gossip) |
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24 | 27.91% |
| Science and Technology |
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1 | 1.16% |
| Voters: 86. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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 Member 14 Level 54.72 Feb 2006 
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You didn't list it in your poll, but my least favorite part of the newscast is the last seven or eight minutes they spend on shit that isn't news.
Oh, the Elks Lodge #488 Women's Auxiliary held a bake sale at St. Anthony's basilica? Mrs. Davenport's kindergarten classroom was paid a visit by the local minor league sporting team's mascot and also some nice men from the Biggenplump hotdog company? Elmer Kerplotzky has spent nine years collecting canned corn from all over the fifty states? Tell me more about this fascinating man! I guess you'd call them "human interest" stories, even though they're anything but interesting. Bake sales, corporate shilling and crazy, old people are not news. it's transparent fluff meant to pad out the broadcast so that viewers think they're getting a full thirty minutes of valuable information. About the only thing worse is when the fluff segments still don't consume the last minute's worth of airspace, so the broadcasters are forced to pretend that they have personalities. "Wow, Mary Beth, that man sure has a lot of corn." "It is a lot, yes. I don't care for corn, personally." "Don't tell that to Mr. Kerplotzky!" "No, I won't. But I guess he does have a rather corny obsession." "Haha, yes he does. I hadn't even thought about that." "Yep. A lot of corn in that man's basement. Corn. OKTHANKSFORWATCHINGCHANNELSIXNEWSUPNEXTISTHEEVENIN GNEWSWITHKATIECOURICFROMEVERYONEHEREHAVEAGOODNIGHT " So basically, I only watch the first twelve minutes of the news now. Everything after that is filler. Jam it back in, in the dark.  |
Member 14 Level 54.72 Feb 2006
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No, I wouldn't. Because local news also contains stories about buildings that catch fire, accidents, worthwhile charities (i.e. preventing the foreclosure of a longstanding soup kitchen), the unexpected, significant local happenings (i.e. former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, speaking at a community college), etc.
News can happen on a local level and still be both significant and relevant. But, I repeat, bakes sales, corporate whoring and crazy old people are not newsworthy items. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Crash "Long-Winded Wrong Answer" Landon