What happened to the news?

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news. I don't know what FOX says. CNN and BBC are dire enough to suit me.

Strangely Gulf News, and Arab News seem to have dried up also. What?

I guess there are fads in the broadcast media.

Ellen Brown said:

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news. I don't know what FOX says. CNN and BBC are dire enough to suit me.

Strangely Gulf News, and Arab News seem to have dried up also. What?

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The US corporate news has turned into tabloid trash obsessed with Trump's every tweet and ramble to the exclusion of everything else. It's all a charade to distract from the real issues. They just want ratings. Even CNN has sunken to that level now.

I follow BBC, which gives reasonable world coverage. I use internet searches to cover the rest.

CNN is terrible and superficial.

"Newsy Tonight" is a good source for "world news".
In the US it's on channet 213

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Saint Frankenstein said:

The US corporate news has turned into tabloid trash obsessed with Trump's every tweet and ramble to the exclusion of everything else.

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I agree, but here in the USA the public needs to know who/what trump is.
And this needs to be repeated over and over until the public understands the difference between Trump's lies and the truth.

Ellen Brown said:

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news.

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The news about a proposed merger of Yemen and the Sudan died out when they couldn't decide whether to call themselves Semen or Yudaman!

Ellen Brown said:

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news. I don't know what FOX says. CNN and BBC are dire enough to suit me.

Strangely Gulf News, and Arab News seem to have dried up also. What?

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Trump and Russians are the new bogey men for corporate American owned media. You can't believe anything they say. ISIS is Israeli Secret Intelligence Service. We knew that back in the 1990's. Americans are so dumbed down by the government and media it's embarrassing.

News are indeed fad-driven, largely because they need funding from readers and advertisers, and people will not listen nearly as much if the topic trends are not listened to and followed.

Too much dispersion of topics will lead to listeners themselves feelling less attached to the topics trending. For those of you to remember the yellow pages, think of how unexciting a reading they used to be.

Also, it is fair to point out that the expectation of a constant influx of news is not very reasonable. Significant news about any given topic are just not likely to arise in conveniently well-distributed bursts.

Editorial offices do not really have the choice of not playing with emphasis and tone of their contents in order to artificially produce a somewhat constant amount of content despite having a wildly variable amount of significant input to work with.

Ellen Brown said:

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news. I don't know what FOX says. CNN and BBC are dire enough to suit me.

Strangely Gulf News, and Arab News seem to have dried up also. What?

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Fad is over, that was so yesterday's news.


Ratings baby!!!!!! ratings!!!! That's what it's all really about.

Get those sponsorships rake in the cash..

Ohhh rahhh!!

Ellen Brown said:

For the longest time, ISIS, Taliban, Iraq, Syria and Yemen were constantly on the news. I don't know what FOX says. CNN and BBC are dire enough to suit me.

Strangely Gulf News, and Arab News seem to have dried up also. What?

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I am still an voracious reader and prefer my news in written form and so do not watch network or cable news. That said I heard someone quip awhile back that that "15 minutes of fame" has been shrunk to "5 minutes of fame". How can a news-bite generation be anything but superficial? They don't have time for in-depth analysis. What little analysis is going on these days seems to be totally fixated on the Trump outrage du jour.