"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty"
- Thomas Griffith
About this Quote
This quote recommends that the news media often tends to focus on mind-blowing as well as attention-grabbing stories, yet rapidly discards them when the general public wearies. The information is commonly adjusted as well as provided in a manner that is meticulously prepared and rehearsed, with little regard for its precision or value. The media is viewed as more worried with generating ratings and also earnings than with giving significant and helpful web content.
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone"
"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"
"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"
"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"
