Posted
11:04 AM
by Gene
Even though this IS Jack Shafer, he elucidates well the reasons we've stopped watching news on television -- such as the music, the "video wallpaper," "the absence of context and continuity" (a highfalutin media-critic way of saying they can't see beyond their noses and when they do see they need bottle-bottom glasses), and above all the "dishonesty" of "24/7 coverage." Hey, isn't dishonesty what TV news is about?