Adam Joy a reporter from London said that- This is
getting seriously out of hand: newspapers are filling their pages with
celebrity gossip and endless articles about programmes on the box, pretending
that this constitutes news.
Joy even mentioned that when newspapers start
covering trashy TV shows, competitions and sit-coms on the box, in all their
inglorious detail, it means that they’ve gotten so lazy and incompetent that
they don’t even bother to send their reporters out in search of proper stories.
Yes, truly no one needs this sort of coverage. It’s only suitable for people
who wouldn’t be able to distinguish what news is.
Adam believes that there are these certain kinds of
columnists who pick up the stories from their own newspapers and give readers
their take on them. Who needs so many columnists anyway? Most of them are
hopeless and peddle their nasty agendas. They just sit at home and throw their
opinions at us. What do they actually know about politics, economics, art or life
generally? It’s a just a cosy arrangement for scribblers.
With that sort of attitude no wonder serious events
in the world get coverage worthy of school newspapers. Look at the events in
the Middle East and Africa. The things that appears in so-called ‘serious
papers’ resembles some make belief drivel. No one can even explain what’s going
on and just bang about democracy and people power and freedom and that other
entire thing that has nothing to do with what is actually taking place.
Intervention in Libya, the coverage of it is a disgrace
in the Western press. Biased. That’s what happens when dumb down the
information flow. They lose a sense of reality, not to mention that they can no
longer write properly.
Newspapers owners and editors complain that their
readership numbers are falling, supposedly undercut by the web. But the main
reason is not that. It’s because newspapers are digging their own graves,
providing news that isn’t really news. And if it doesn’t stop, they’ll simply
disappear.
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