How do you define "NEWS?" I'm a bit confused. Is the opinion of "talking heads" news? Do editorial comments form news? Does a blog like this one represent news? Or is there a difference between a breaking story and what someone says about that story?
Seems to me that most of the "News" channels, whether they are on radio or TV or the internet, are editorial comments rather than distributors of what is happening in the world or even in my neck of the woods. I guess some people want to know what an athelete or a movie star or other celebrety think about a story but I don't think that makes it news.
What I am experiencing on most of the news channels or all news radio stations or the internet is not news but opinion. Sadly that is also beginning to seep into the printed page. Newspapers and news magazines are following the same track.
So here is my suggestion. Let's separate and accurately label the sections of our programing or reporting as either news or editorial. If you are covering a speech by the President give the viewer, listener or reader the story but if you want to tell us what you think he said, label that as your editorial coverage.
Well that is my editorial comment for today - thanks for letting me share.
Bill
Thoughts at random and some meditations as a Pastor looks at the world in which we live and God's activity. This blogger lives in Northwest PA amidst the beauty of nature yet close to the bustle of the metropolis of Pittsburgh.
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- A Pastor in the United Methodist Church. The father of 7 and grandfather of 13.
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