BS: American News Bulletins

Subject: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 07:17 AM

Watching American news channel this morning.
I wonder you all don't get fed up with the very inflated way of reporting and commenting on news.
Its a bit likw watching some old time carnival tent showman ..trying to talk up the latest piece of mediocrity to grace his stage
TRump, Menerndez., Border crisis, North Korea, shooting incident......

you'd think you were heading for incineration within the next ten seconds....but its all there the next day and something else is in the news hotspot, and with three experts to explain how your life depends on it.

Well weird!

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 09:03 AM

You haven't read Cornwall Live, Al. For an area where nothing much ever really happens, there's a massive drama of some kind reported every day in huge black banner headlines.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 01:14 PM

There are multiple news reporting sites which run 24/7, so they do tend to milk any story for days, with varying focus.
CNN and MSNBC expect each hour's host to vary the theme with interviews of semi-relevant 'experts'.
   I've gotten very good at sorting out really **new** tidbits, but going to nature channels and movies when it's just repetition.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 03:16 PM

You can only listen to the same story hashed and rehashed so often. The trick with places like MSNBC is to drop in for a few minutes midday to see what's up then listen to one of the evening programs to get the updates and interviews. CNN tends to have a broader range of actual news than the deep dives MSNBC takes on mostly liberal/progressive oriented stories. For a while there CNN shed a lot of its news readers and hosts as a pro-Trump guy ran the place for a few months. He is now gone.

National Public Radio and the PBS Newshour are where I get most of my news.

Fox News, despite the name, isn't news. Nor is OAN, Newsmax, etc. They don't even try to make it sound like what is actually happening on the ground. The major television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) still tend to have rational news reports, but I look to their local affiliate channels and that for mostly for local news.

American newspapers have print/web content but they have a lot of video stories and podcasts now. There is no shortage of news outlets in the US.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 05:12 PM

I'm with Stilly on the television bulletins.
I much prefer to listen to the radio,
where you can get soundbites without the distracting pictures,
or in-depth coverage of news stories.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 08:02 AM

Democracy Now is a news show entirely different from the others.
EACH TOPIC gets as much as half an hour of in-depth understanding without any soundbite reporting.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 08:05 AM

Democracy Now is also interspersed with global folk music that is eye-opening and wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 07:51 AM

Stilly, I'm with you re NPR. I look at the headlines in the morning, but other than that, I just let the day go by. I know that if anything serious happens it will turn up within three minutes on FB or other social media, which I'm also limiting these days.

I will never forget, however, on the day the Twin Towers came down, how Mudcat was my news lifeline. American news media were crashing, and I stayed on this page while folks across the pond kept me apprised of what was going on. I was teaching in my music classroom, so had frequent changeovers of students (5 minutes in between) so would run to my computer, read the latest, run to the office and tell them what was known. I'm forever grateful to this site for that, and so many other reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 23 - 02:31 PM

NPR Reports on Congressional hearings

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 23 - 08:43 AM

With the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East,
I am avoiding in-depth news broadcasts
and especially avoiding the soundbite news broadcasts.
It's just too distressing,
and there are other ways of learning what is going on
without all the sensory overload.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Oct 23 - 09:43 AM

Newscasts, being on the air 24/7, have to say "something", even if it's just rehashing what they said and hour ago...or yesterday.

I am sure that, if anything new really happens in Israel or Gaza, it will be reported 5 minutes later, and analyzed to death for the next few days.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 01:14 PM

There are multiple news reporting sites which run 24/7, so they do tend to milk any story for days, with varying focus.
CNN and MSNBC expect each hour's host to vary the theme with interviews of semi-relevant 'experts'.
   I've gotten very good at sorting out really **new** tidbits, but going to nature channels and movies when it's just repetition.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Oct 23 - 09:43 AM

Newscasts, being on the air 24/7, have to say "something", even if it's just rehashing what they said and hour ago...or yesterday.

I am sure that, if anything new really happens in Israel or Gaza, it will be reported 5 minutes later, and analyzed to death for the next few days.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 07:51 AM

Stilly, I'm with you re NPR. I look at the headlines in the morning, but other than that, I just let the day go by. I know that if anything serious happens it will turn up within three minutes on FB or other social media, which I'm also limiting these days.

I will never forget, however, on the day the Twin Towers came down, how Mudcat was my news lifeline. American news media were crashing, and I stayed on this page while folks across the pond kept me apprised of what was going on. I was teaching in my music classroom, so had frequent changeovers of students (5 minutes in between) so would run to my computer, read the latest, run to the office and tell them what was known. I'm forever grateful to this site for that, and so many other reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 08:02 AM

Democracy Now is a news show entirely different from the others.
EACH TOPIC gets as much as half an hour of in-depth understanding without any soundbite reporting.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 08:05 AM

Democracy Now is also interspersed with global folk music that is eye-opening and wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 23 - 02:31 PM

NPR Reports on Congressional hearings

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 03:16 PM

You can only listen to the same story hashed and rehashed so often. The trick with places like MSNBC is to drop in for a few minutes midday to see what's up then listen to one of the evening programs to get the updates and interviews. CNN tends to have a broader range of actual news than the deep dives MSNBC takes on mostly liberal/progressive oriented stories. For a while there CNN shed a lot of its news readers and hosts as a pro-Trump guy ran the place for a few months. He is now gone.

National Public Radio and the PBS Newshour are where I get most of my news.

Fox News, despite the name, isn't news. Nor is OAN, Newsmax, etc. They don't even try to make it sound like what is actually happening on the ground. The major television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) still tend to have rational news reports, but I look to their local affiliate channels and that for mostly for local news.

American newspapers have print/web content but they have a lot of video stories and podcasts now. There is no shortage of news outlets in the US.

Subject: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 07:17 AM

Watching American news channel this morning.
I wonder you all don't get fed up with the very inflated way of reporting and commenting on news.
Its a bit likw watching some old time carnival tent showman ..trying to talk up the latest piece of mediocrity to grace his stage
TRump, Menerndez., Border crisis, North Korea, shooting incident......

you'd think you were heading for incineration within the next ten seconds....but its all there the next day and something else is in the news hotspot, and with three experts to explain how your life depends on it.

Well weird!

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 09:03 AM

You haven't read Cornwall Live, Al. For an area where nothing much ever really happens, there's a massive drama of some kind reported every day in huge black banner headlines.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 05:12 PM

I'm with Stilly on the television bulletins.
I much prefer to listen to the radio,
where you can get soundbites without the distracting pictures,
or in-depth coverage of news stories.

Subject: RE: BS: American News Bulletins
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Oct 23 - 08:43 AM

With the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East,
I am avoiding in-depth news broadcasts
and especially avoiding the soundbite news broadcasts.
It's just too distressing,
and there are other ways of learning what is going on
without all the sensory overload.