Single-story news channels

[mtbc]

I am not sure what the point is of having access to several full-time news channels on television if they are all dominated by the same story about which there is little new news. Is there not some other news from somewhere they can give us? At around the time of Biden's first press conference as President, one couldn't escape it, even many hours afterward. I thought this trial in Minneapolis was successfully dominating the news, even though right now it mostly seems to focus soberly on incidental detail of matters like police organization and training, but instead every channel is now filled with many minutes of this lone assault on the Capitol, though we have less than a half-minute of actual information about it yet. At least it is not as bad as the occasional coverage of, a Royal baby will be born soon, here is the street outside the hospital where we don't know any more than you, the viewer.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Television is definitely NOT the place to get your news. (Well, local news is okay, but not national or international.) I read the Washington Post, Reuters, AP, and various other things on-line. I pay for a digital subscription to the Washington Post because it's the only "national" newspaper I respect. The New York Times has gone downhill horrendously since Trump was elected. I have no respect for them at all.

Another paper that is good that YOU might like is the Wall Street Times. Excellent articles, but I am not interested in finance, and a lot of their articles relate to finance.

[mtbc]

Mmm, I also like The Economist and indeed generally think well of WaPo, disappointing about the NYT though, I've often liked them (also the International Herald Tribune while it existed). Alas, I'm looking to catch up a bit while working out or breaking down boxes or whatever so, at least at those times, television's the easiest. (And then radio in the kitchen while I'm cooking!)