Posted on 11/06/2022 5:08:43 AM PST by FarCenter
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At ratings-winner WABC-TV in New York, for example, the channel offers 44 hours of newscasts per week. Most other stations in New York and Philly offer up about the same: Newscasts in the early morning, at noon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 11 p.m. That’s six to seven hours dedicated to the news, mostly local, per day.
And crime is front and center on residents’ television screens every day. Murders, shootings, assaults, smash-and-grabs, car jackings. And with cameras everywhere, whether it’s people filming on their smartphones or public webcams throughout a city, there’s more footage of such crimes than ever before. Beatings and robberies are captured and shared with viewers within hours. There’s never a premium on content. It’s seemingly Groundhog Day lately when it comes to murder scenes, interviews with families and neighbors of victims and crime stories in general.
But here’s where local news separates itself from most cable news programs: The absence of opinions from anchors or pundits.
Just watch your average local newscast regardless of where you live: The most basic tenets of journalism are most prevalent when presenting any story: who, what, when, where, why, how. Almost no point of view or loud talking head to push a narrative.
And it’s having a huge impact on the candidacies of Democrats such as Kathy Hochul, John Fetterman and Kate Brown.
Voters in New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon will make their voices heard on Nov. 8. Inflation and abortion and immigration and education will be big issues, of course. But crime may play the biggest role in deciding who wins many of these races. Local news will help shape the votes of those who are on the fence or otherwise would have stayed home.
That’s because, unlike most of the national media, local news is still a trusted brand mostly free of bloviating opinions and bias.
Obviously, the DemocRATs are shirking their responsibility to suppress real news and replace it with their standard issue bull ****.
If the dems were to win the election, the ministry of truth will need to look into “truth checking” local newscasts.
“Local news will help shape the votes of those who are on the fence or otherwise would have stayed home.”
No, local news will not shape the votes. Local news is presenting the facts and viewers can interpret it however they want. Local news is basically doing cable news’ jobs for them. Of all the cable news outlets, Fox probably comes closest to reporting news. However they also have opinion and commentary, but at least they admit it.
MSLSD and the Chicken Noodle Network say they are news, but it’s all opinion.
Fortunately for Democrats about 25% of the people in the country are Evil and Stupid enough to vote for them.
However, this essayist is correct about the crime blotter stuff. They probably don't realize they are shooting themselves in the foot by starting every broadcast with BREAKING NEWS that usually involves criminal activity.
And what demographic is committing the vast majority of these crimes ?
Why, the (D)ims’ favorite panderees, of course !
Journalism 101 -
-If it bleeds, it leads.
-One local death equals 100 in Europe or 1000 in Asia.
-Sex sells
Who watches local news?
Anybody?
“That’s because, unlike most of the national media, local news is still a trusted brand mostly free of bloviating opinions and bias.‘
Bull
Shit.
The leftist angle is represented in the reporting itself. What terms are used, what is a given or taken for granted. It’s all reported from the point of view of the leftist religious belief system. All local news is banned in my home for this reason.
Good point, but, questionable as Kate Brown is not running for governor in Oregon.
I don’t watch news anymore
I can read
I don’t watch news anymore
I can read
And how about the decades long pandering by the “local ‘news’” Feel good stories, victimizations, welfare pities, racial pities, and failures to call out ANY PC groups?
How has covering up and promoting left wing BS “hurting” Demonrats ?
Local “news” has been a joke for a long time, with it’s pretty /quota faces merely to read teleprompters and feign “journalism”
MWAH-HA-HA-HA!
weird
people getting the news
hurts the democrats
weird
Dere vill be no reportink on de local crime.
Democrats want no news because any news could create the realistic perception of how totally demonic they are.
It’s in their FB news feeds, community groups, school groups even share it. It’s not simply TV news broadcasts.
I witch the local news every time there is a tornado warning in my area.
The first five minutes of local news is like all of the commercials shown on TV; nothing but black people in front of the camera. Unless there is a major crime involving illegal aliens.
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