Comments on: Newspaper death watch http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/28/newspaper-death-watch/ Brian Fuller's blog on the state of media and communications Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:04:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Loring Wirbel http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/28/newspaper-death-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Loring Wirbel Thu, 01 May 2008 23:16:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=312#comment-470 I had not watched CNN Headline News since the days of Lynn Whats-her-name, the sultry 40-year-old put out to pasture for not being young and perky enough. Lynn's show had its share of fluff, to be sure, but you could always depend on a serious foreign or Washington story to break up the monotony. I was dimly aware that Headline News had added Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace to shake up the 30-minute repetition blocks, but I didn't realize the show's content decline.<br/><br/>My neighborhood YMCA just put in new ellipticals with built-in TVs, so I sampled a couple evening's worth of Headline News. What tripe. Random home invasions in Phoenix. Fake pleas for Stacey Peterson to call home. Unusual sex practices. And of course Miley Cyrus. No foreign news whatsoever. Almost nothing from Washington. This is an embarrassing stew of gossip that dare not call itself news. I had not watched CNN Headline News since the days of Lynn Whats-her-name, the sultry 40-year-old put out to pasture for not being young and perky enough. Lynn’s show had its share of fluff, to be sure, but you could always depend on a serious foreign or Washington story to break up the monotony. I was dimly aware that Headline News had added Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace to shake up the 30-minute repetition blocks, but I didn’t realize the show’s content decline.

My neighborhood YMCA just put in new ellipticals with built-in TVs, so I sampled a couple evening’s worth of Headline News. What tripe. Random home invasions in Phoenix. Fake pleas for Stacey Peterson to call home. Unusual sex practices. And of course Miley Cyrus. No foreign news whatsoever. Almost nothing from Washington. This is an embarrassing stew of gossip that dare not call itself news.

]]> By: dark_faust http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/28/newspaper-death-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-469 dark_faust Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=312#comment-469 Have the readers really changed that much? Most folks I know still want substance in the news. Is the younger generation of readers the problem? Is it that the older generation has less time to read? Where have all the real readers gone? Have the readers really changed that much? Most folks I know still want substance in the news. Is the younger generation of readers the problem? Is it that the older generation has less time to read? Where have all the real readers gone?

]]> By: Loring Wirbel http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/28/newspaper-death-watch/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Loring Wirbel Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:52:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=312#comment-468 Precisely. And it's astonishing how many people have yet to realize that the real problem is not the chosen medium, but the dwindling appetite people have for anything outside prurient info-tainment. Go back and check out the lyrics to Natalie Merchant's/10,000 Maniacs' "Candy Everybody Wants." If the world clamors for candy and you offer them nutrition, you're toast. Precisely. And it’s astonishing how many people have yet to realize that the real problem is not the chosen medium, but the dwindling appetite people have for anything outside prurient info-tainment. Go back and check out the lyrics to Natalie Merchant’s/10,000 Maniacs’ “Candy Everybody Wants.” If the world clamors for candy and you offer them nutrition, you’re toast.

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