{"id":1148,"date":"2013-09-01T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2013-09-01T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:14:02","slug":"what-is-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"What is news, a rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read the news today oh, boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph.
\nThe Beatles\/A Day In The Life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A picture of a woman supposedly holding a gun to a baby’s head is making the Facebook rounds. They had a story about it on the local news the other night. Why?<\/p>\n

Is it news?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting in a creepy, voyeuristic way. It’s sad that some ass-hat thinks it’s funny, if the picture was real. Not news, though.<\/p>\n

How ’bout a panda cub being born? Or no panda cub? Nope.<\/p>\n

Something happening on a TV show? A TV show going off the air? Someone winning a TV competition? Is any of it news? Mylie, Miley, Milie? Maile? Whatever her name is, is it news that she appeared on an award show and shook her ass?<\/p>\n

No. No. NO. Hell, no.<\/p>\n

I realize that what makes something news is extremely subjective. But there have got to be more important things to cover in a town of any<\/em> size than some teen idol peeing in a bucket, or a celebrity getting a divorce. There are media outlets designed for gossip and entertainment for those of us who are inclined to indulge our curiousity about what the Kardashians are doing, and they do a far better job of it than the legitimate news sites and shows.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned some of my other favorite news irritants: overly casual language, and the excessive use of cliche’. My theory is that when the language used in reporting news got sloppy, so did the reporting itself. <\/p>\n

As a result, I watch and read the news less and less frequently. Soon I may be uninformed enough to find it useful again.<\/p>\n

If not, I still have a lot of books I can read.<\/p>\n

I’ll do OK.<\/p>\n

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