Thursday, November 10, 2011

The dying breath of local tv news,

Our discussion today about local news was very interesting. The fact that almost every story is death and doom is sad, but it apparently gets viewers. When you think about it, there's not much national news that needs to be repeated locally by the end of the day, we have already found it online. It seems shock value is the only thing local tv news has left... Which to me reeks of extinction ;)
Posted by at

3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 11, 2011 at 7:53 AM

    Local news is basically a nonficticious horror movie these days. They will all but ignore the positive things that happen, but "Blood bath in Idaho" will be the top story

    ReplyDelete
  2. Marina BarrettNovember 11, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    do you think that if they start focusing on the positive and reporting things that are not negative, it could save them from "extinction" ?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Danny W.November 12, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    I think that there is hope that if the news would focus more on reporting positive things then it could save the news. Sure I guess negative things such as crime/death or whatever may bring the traditional viewer. But for the newer generation there will have to be more relevant stories that benefit the audience. Would the positive outlook help? I'm not sure it would save the local news completely but it sure will help it some.

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)