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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to see all cable news channels return to journalism. I think 24 hour news was the beginning of the end for our society, not Twitter. Packaging up “info-tainment” segments for mass consumption is what set the stage for the division. It removed the seriousness and nuance that should be present when discussing politics. It gave everyone a front seat to random and rare violence in far away cities that made it seem down the street.[/quote]

To me, the huge problem is just that the news channels have tried to save money and pump up ratings by turning their backs on hard news.

I'm a liberal Democrat, but, when I turn on CNN or MSNBC (or, Fox News, if I ever watched it), I just don't want to see a reality show about life in prison. I don't want to see more than about one half-hour panel discussion show per day. I want to turn on a news channel like that and see... news.

And I want two people who can at least add up-to-date text crawls to the screen working around the clock. If something really big happens in Europe at 3 a.m. U.S. time, I at least want that to show up in a text crawl on U.S. news stations by about 4 a.m. I don't want to have a sense that U.S. TV news works bankers' hours. I get that news people have lives, and that there will mostly be reruns at 4 a.m., but I want to see actual news and reasonably fresh news features at 4 a.m., not reality TV shows, and not sobered-up bar stool drunks blathering about the world.

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