Favorite news reporter?

yabba said:
Terry Gross is my home girl

That said, she doesn't really do "news"
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She's lost me a bit over the years. Seems like there are more and more occasions where she's either strident, didn't do her research, or both. I'll still tune in though.
 
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dmn23 said:
I simply cannot get past the voice. I know there's a physical reason for it, and I know she's one of the most knowledgeable veterans out there, but it's beyond distracting.
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Well, I listen to Cookie Monster metal, so it's pretty easy. :grin:
 
dmn23 said:
I know she's one of the most knowledgeable veterans out there
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I wouldn't go that far- this is the woman that famously claimed Bernie Sanders holds dual US/Israeli citizenship (which is not true) and continued to repeat it after Sanders corrected her. I also heard her ask an Iranian women's rights activist about the impact of the Taliban on Iranian domestic politics, unaware that Afghanistan and Iran are two different places. Fuck that bitch- she's an idiot with a voice for silent film.
 
Grant Gross said:
Yeah, a lot of people like to refer to "the media" as this huge, monolithic beast. It's not like all us media people get together each week to figure out new ways we're going to screw Trump.
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Au contraire, mon frere. Ever since the deregulation of media ownership by the FCC and the elimination of the fairness doctrine, the media has become super-concentrated to where six companies now control 90% of US print and broadcast media. This is why a LOT of stories will never be aired (and the information below is five years out of date):

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bsman said:
Au contraire, mon frere. Ever since the deregulation of media ownership by the FCC and the elimination of the fairness doctrine, the media has become super-concentrated to where six companies now control 90% of US print and broadcast media. This is why a LOT of stories will never be aired (and the information below is five years out of date):
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The Internet news machine over the past five years has helped diversify the landscape somewhat. Print is all but dead. Broadcast news is doing somewhat better. There's certainly been a consolidation of radio, but most of that is focused on playing classic rock and bro country, not on news. And the chart above is mostly about entertainment consolidation, not news.

There are gatekeepers on the Internet for sure. It's tough to get page view traction without going through a handful of gatekeepers, but there is independent news reporting happening.
 
Grant Gross said:
The Internet news machine over the past five years has helped diversify the landscape somewhat. Print is all but dead. Broadcast news is doing somewhat better. There's certainly been a consolidation of radio, but most of that is focused on playing classic rock and bro country, not on news. And the chart above is mostly about entertainment consolidation, not news.

There are gatekeepers on the Internet for sure. It's tough to get page view traction without going through a handful of gatekeepers, but there is independent news reporting happening.
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Agree to a point: The above only really applies to people who are digitally-enabled, which pretty much exempts folks older than the baby boomers and folks who don't have access to high-speed broadband.
 
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