Funmurphys: the Blog

Serious News Media?

Don't you love it when the news media tells you how important they are because keep the public informed with important and serious information, and that "fluff" only gets on because the public "demands" it? Cori Dauber goes looking for important and serious information about the terrible attack in Spain, and like Diogenes has a hard time finding what she's looking for because fluff crowds out the good stuff, even on cable news channels. (I wonder if she's going to change the name to Ranting Prof now that she's solo.)

I seem to remember when MSNBC (I think) did some survey about what news people would pick they were surprised that people favored hard news. I haven't noticed any improvement, though