How Television Fails the American Public

In the wake of the media circus surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith, John Whitehead discusses the decline of the news media and how television fails the American public.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• TV
• news
• media
• Anna
• Nicole
• Smith
• journalism

[TheDowntownDistrict]

I thought this organization had hundreds of thousands of members. If that is actually the case, why have only 101 people viewed this video?

[RutherfordInstitute]

The video postings are a new thing and we're just rolling them out. Demographics are also in play here.

The written commentaries are distributed to a very large list of people, newspapers and websites.

[kriccistarr]

@elhayya your right the Iraqis are people to.

[elhayya]

"soldiers dying in iraq"

how about iraqis dying?

[Puzzoozoo]

Governments think of the public as the 'mushrooms', i.e keep them in the dark and feed them on bullshit, and every few years get the crop of votes from them to keep themselves in power to continue the cycle.

[mayartay]

I would like to offer two suggestions for Mr. Whitehead:

"nucular" - No!! Leave that "word" to GWB!

"major newspapers across the country are half ads" -

Wouldn't "half-assed" be more to the point?!