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JerseyGator01
03-18-2013, 10:27 PM
Is this why so many libbies are leaving CNN in the dust given their historically bad ratings? They're just too factual.

What I'll call an audit of three days of MSNBC by Pew Research showed that it presented 85% opinion/commentary and 15% factual information. I wonder what percentage of that 15% was spent showing facts that made Dems look bad.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Not really that surprised given how much you see op-ed pieces on the front page of newspapers nowadays. So-called journalists seem to be much more reliant on he said, she said stories.

http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/the-changing-tv-news-landscape/

From the link:

The news programs that Americans watch on national cable channels and their local television stations have changed significantly in recent years while the network evening newscasts have remained remarkably stable, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

On cable, the news structure of the three channels—the mix of interviews, packaged segments and live coverage—has changed. After relying on significantly distinct formats five years ago, the three rivals now look strikingly similar.

At the same time, some of the differences that demarcated daytime cable from prime time have also eroded in the past five years. Traditionally known for its attention to breaking news, daytime cable’s cuts in live event coverage and its growing reliance on interviews suggest it may be moving more toward the talk-oriented evening shows. This transition may cut the costs of having a crew and correspondent provide live event coverage.

CNN, which has branded itself around reporting resources and reach, cut back between 2007 and 2012 on two areas tied to that brand—in-depth story packages and live event coverage. Even so, CNN is the only one of the three big cable news channels to produce more straight reporting than commentary over all. At the other end of that spectrum lies MSNBC, where opinion fills a full 85% of the channel’s airtime.1

geauxgator1
03-18-2013, 10:39 PM
No surprises here..they get their talking points from the DNC and try to pass them off as news.

108
03-18-2013, 10:42 PM
not surprising as most of their shows aren't hard news oriented