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I've seen a lot of newspapers really go downhill over the past 10-20 years, they never used to have celebrity crap in them, except the tabloids.

Pretty sure you'll find the publishers of the crap mags also publish or published other stuff, they have swung towards the dross because its cheap, easy and profitable.

Its a market like drugs, get the lowest 10% hooked and you're made for life.
If they were responsible they wouldn't publish this crap an more than TV stations would be devoting hours of airtime to bloody Michael Jackson.

Punch some of the editors in the head is Dilbert_X's solution.

Pretty sure if it were turned off for a week everyone would forget they needed to know what haircut Britney had or which drugs MJ was inserting into which body part and get back to doing and thinking about useful things.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2009-06-27 05:04:08)

Dilbert_X wrote:

Punch some of the editors in the head is Dilbert_X's solution.

Pretty sure if it were turned off for a week everyone would forget they needed to know what haircut Britney had or which drugs MJ was inserting into which body part and get back to doing and thinking about useful things.

An alternative is having major news sources that are partially funded by taxes and partially funded by individual donations.

PBS is an American news station that runs like this, and you can see a clear difference in what they cover as opposed to CNN.  The BBC is also pretty good for the same reasons (although they are entirely funded by taxes, right?).

Kmarion wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Punch some of the editors in the head is Dilbert_X's solution.

Pretty sure if it were turned off for a week everyone would forget they needed to know what haircut Britney had or which drugs MJ was inserting into which body part and get back to doing and thinking about useful things.

An alternative is having major news sources that are partially funded by taxes and partially funded by individual donations.

PBS is an American news station that runs like this, and you can see a clear difference in what they cover as opposed to CNN.  The BBC is also pretty good for the same reasons (although they are entirely funded by taxes, right?).

Have you seen the beebs top stories the last couple days?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Eh... well, PBS is still free of that crap.

Turquoise wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

An alternative is having major news sources that are partially funded by taxes and partially funded by individual donations.

PBS is an American news station that runs like this, and you can see a clear difference in what they cover as opposed to CNN.  The BBC is also pretty good for the same reasons (although they are entirely funded by taxes, right?).

Have you seen the beebs top stories the last couple days?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Eh... well, PBS is still free of that crap.

They do a better job of separating it. There are plenty of mj stories on PBS.. but it does not dominate it, and it's in the arts section. AFAIK Frontline, their primary journalism show, isn't dominated by the MJ news.