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Politics : Media Bias
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To: microhoogle! who wrote (93)9/9/2004 7:38:28 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) of 169
 
The widespread syndication of articles and other content from the Times and Post are part of the cheapening of print journalism in general. Local papers pick up those pieces and don't have to fill their own staff positions to do original columns or reporting. I'll occasionally pick up a Sunday New York Times, and it is thoroughly disgusting to see our local paper run a story from that edition several days or a week later, often having nothing to do with local readers. Why do so many smaller papers subscribe to the syndication services from the Times and the Post? Well for one thing, both those big city papers still have very large staffs and very large budgets. The New York Times and the Times of London have the largest editorial staffs in the world, I believe; reporters working for them around the globe. Network TV used to have a lot of overseas people. Not so much any more. They've cut their budgets too, and it shows. A lot of the aggravating things about media are not due to some "bias" but rather doing things on the cheap. They run a lot of filler material because its cheap. Fires and wrecks are cheap to cover and produce compared to original reporting, where you have to hire and manage smart reporters who actually have the brains to go out and dig up real stories.
And the talking heads on cable news shows, are just cheap filler material, and generally worthless in my opinion.
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