It is perpetually terrifying the extent to which TV news is in love with war.https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1430611778581536772 …
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As is the presumption of American victory, which also explains why this crisis is proving such a challenge.
This is just the latest "OJ" story. Cable news is entertainment first, protection of corporate profits next, and rarely news.
It’s all about the ratings mostly, which were cratering post Covid & election. They needed a new crisis because everyone turned off the news.
Right. There’s a reason why my answer to the “what’s the first news event you actually remember” question is watching Desert Storm I’m CNN in my parents’ living room as a six year old.
The ‘battlefield weather report’ on CNN was perhaps one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen
I can’t find it on YouTube, but I hope to one day. Mind boggling in its banality
War, sports, disasters (natural/terrorists), and presidential debates are pretty much the only events you've got to watch live, and not tivo'ed.
That, and airplane crashes.
24/7 drama, trauma, exoticism, death, redemption, and soul searching with explosions, bodies, and young people to boot - but over there, with “those” people…
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