CNN Chief Doesn't Care If You Think There's Too Much Flight 370 Coverage
Journalism is dead, long live journalism...?
When the president of a news network, in this case, Jeff Zucker at CNN, justifies it's programming that emphasizes what its audience WANTS, as opposed to providing sound, solid journalism, well, maybe they ought to just rename the network TMZ, and forget all the ridiculous pretense.
Yes, ratings do matter, and Fox News network leads the way. But except for the erroneous use of the word "news", there is precious little about Fox News that qualifies as actual journalism. Why should CNN consider itself in competition with Fox? Fox is simply a caricature of a news operation, and its slogan of "fair and balanced" is only accurate in the most Orwellian of senses.
Zucker is the latest apologist for news as entertainment, and no amount of ratings can make up for the horrific disservice CNN is providing to its viewers. There is no excuse for an uninformed public in a democracy.
Journalism is dead, long live journalism...?
When the president of a news network, in this case, Jeff Zucker at CNN, justifies it's programming that emphasizes what its audience WANTS, as opposed to providing sound, solid journalism, well, maybe they ought to just rename the network TMZ, and forget all the ridiculous pretense.
Yes, ratings do matter, and Fox News network leads the way. But except for the erroneous use of the word "news", there is precious little about Fox News that qualifies as actual journalism. Why should CNN consider itself in competition with Fox? Fox is simply a caricature of a news operation, and its slogan of "fair and balanced" is only accurate in the most Orwellian of senses.
Zucker is the latest apologist for news as entertainment, and no amount of ratings can make up for the horrific disservice CNN is providing to its viewers. There is no excuse for an uninformed public in a democracy.
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