A "Hard News" Channel?

[SlickWillie71]

I forgot who had mentioned it first (I think it was Ed Schultz), but I do think there is room for a news channel that focuses strictly on major news stories with an emphasis on international affairs and pushing on stories that are only grazed by the infotainment media that gives more time to roundtable discussions on Brittany Spears' parenting and Lindsay Lohan's troubles. I think there is a market for a channel that is not corporately owned and is willing to ask the hard questions and pursue issues that CNN, Faux News and MSNBC won't.

Thoughts?

 

[slappy4428]

Great idea; it will never work. Ratings would suck because sex sells

 

[BYH]

And not corporate owned?

Good luck getting carried by the the corporate-owned cable behemoths.

 

[HejiraHenry]

I forgot who had mentioned it first (I think it was Ed Schultz), but I do think there is room for a news channel that focuses strictly on major news stories with an emphasis on international affairs and pushing on stories that are only grazed by the infotainment media that gives more time to roundtable discussions on Brittany Spears' parenting and Lindsay Lohan's troubles. I think there is a market for a channel that is not corporately owned and is willing to ask the hard questions and pursue issues that CNN, Faux News and MSNBC won't.

Thoughts?

Isn't that what PBS supposed to be?

 

[John]

Judging by the thread title, I thought Naked News had a new rival.

 

[PhilaYank36]

Great idea; it will never work. Ratings would suck because sex sells

If sex sells, how wood a Hard News channel fail? ;D

 

[DanOregon]

Headline News used to be that way - then they switched to two 15 minute wheels each half-hour and added "personalities."

 

[wickedwritah]

BBC News?

 

[Write-brained]

BBC News?

Ding. You beat me to it.

Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera ain't exactly leading with Paris Hilton these days, either ...

 

[wickedwritah]

I haven't seen Al-Jazeera English. What are folks' thoughts on it?

 

[Write-brained]

I haven't seen Al-Jazeera English. What are folks' thoughts on it?

Can't say I've seen much of it, either. All I know of it is the news clips you see on other channels, but I think they'll run bodies and **** - which they should do here prominently. Maybe we'd have less war.

 

[wickedwritah]

I wish it were available more widely, if only so that we could have the opportunity to see the other side.

Not saying I'd watch a steady diet of it.

 

[EStreetJoe]

there's also CNN's International News broadcast for an hour each day (its on around noon or 1 p.m. eastern) that's strictly hard news... none of the "entertainment"/"sex" stories that pass for news on a regular broadcast.

 

[jgmacg]

Take a look:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm

and:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/?ok

Whither Britney?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Judging by the thread title, I thought Naked News had a new rival.

Trying to keep abreast of the situation, huh?

 

[markvid]

I wish it were available more widely, if only so that we could have the opportunity to see the other side.

Not saying I'd watch a steady diet of it.

Al-Jazeera is an Al-Qaeda sympathizer. Period.
I hope Dave Marash is happy that he ruined his career.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I wish it were available more widely, if only so that we could have the opportunity to see the other side.

Not saying I'd watch a steady diet of it.

Al-Jazeera is an Al-Qaeda sympathizer. Period.
I hope Dave Marash is happy that he ruined his career.

Ah, no.
But carry on.

 

[wickedwritah]

I wish it were available more widely, if only so that we could have the opportunity to see the other side.

Not saying I'd watch a steady diet of it.

Al-Jazeera is an Al-Qaeda sympathizer. Period.
I hope Dave Marash is happy that he ruined his career.

And our media is considered a bunch of Bush sympathizers, a bunch of ragdolls.

Al-Jazeera puts together a report based on a Middle Eastern viewpoint. Maybe they call suicide bombers "martyrs" -- I wouldn't know. But watching a newscast like that may give you and I a perspective on the situation there that we ain't gettin' from CNN, Fox and MSNBC.

 

[markvid]

And it's all the press releases from Al-Qaeda.

 

[wickedwritah]

And it's all the press releases from Al-Qaeda.

It is, eh?

I'm sure you've sat there and watched?