Putting some woman who has delusions of grandeur because her elementary school music teacher told her she had a good voice on the TV because she won a Facebook contest is not journalism. Letting her belt out a few bars of the latest ballad from pubescent romance fantasies is the opposite of journalism.
Here's a rule of thumb: If it gives you a warm and fuzzy, it's probably not news. If it can be classified as a "human interest story", save your breath, I'm not interested.
But it costs next to nothing to produce, unlike real reporting, what with cameras, writers, talent, and so on.
ReplyDeleteI hardly bother to put on TV news except for the early morning show. I only watch that because the weather and traffic babes are, well, babes.