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BS: slow news stories
| Ed T | 11 Aug 14 - 02:40 PM | |
| Q (Frank Staplin) | 11 Aug 14 - 03:19 PM | |
| Q (Frank Staplin) | 11 Aug 14 - 03:20 PM | |
| Ed T | 11 Aug 14 - 03:57 PM | |
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Subject: BS: slow news stories From: Ed T Date: 11 Aug 14 - 02:40 PM I wonder- does the main stream media, such as CNN News, seek out and add fuel to top news stories in slow times, to fill in the gaps in slow news periods. What would have been the main news stories-witnout Gaza, Ukraine and ISIS, If these breaking news stories never happened, what other major news stories did we miss due to them? Since warring participants monitor news sources, like CNN, could the "medium" be (aka, fuel or influence) the popular mainstream breaking news message "? |
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Subject: RE: BS: slow news stories From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Aug 14 - 03:19 PM If I Google CNN, under the head CNN.om, I get six categories to choose from. If I click the heading, I get an assortment of "breaking" news stories- today, the top one on the Yazidis and the next about the shooting of a teen by a cop. On the left is a list of 18 stories from Ebola at the top to golf on the bottom. With these choices, and revisions (partly, as you suggest) to the main stories, I can't imagine the well going dry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: slow news stories From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Aug 14 - 03:20 PM CNN.om? adding stories from another planet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: slow news stories From: Ed T Date: 11 Aug 14 - 03:57 PM Yes, there are always other news stories on the news websites, such as the CNN website.But, CNN is primarily TV based. My observation is, as the main stories turn luke-warm on CNN, (such as GAZA and Ukraine), other stories move up higher on the list as breaking TV news, as being more relatively important (not that they were not always so). This spring, the missing Malaysian plane was a 24 hour news story for weeks on CNN. Not much else was covered-not because other news were not evolving. I cite CNN, because it is a major source, Internatinally, for world news. So, it seems to have a broad impact on what is news. |
