Thread: Dear US Media, It is shameful that I must read the foreign press to find well researched articles about domestic...

"No, enough people will stop watching." No company has ever went bankrupt underestimating the stupidity of the public. Most people would rather be entertained than told the truth.

No one said anything about bankruptcy. Programs will change their programming to meet public demand. Much like they've done since they started. It wasn't until very recent certain programs were calling out other programs for their false or misleading information. The more people demand truthful reporting (by watching programs such as the Daily Show) the less popular your a-typical reporting program will become. No one is going...

i think we should all take a moment to thank the BBC for keeping the uk media on an even keel. thanks BBC!

You have a point there, if a large majority of Americans cared about more in-depth news coverage then the news agencies would start having better coverage of important news events. As it stands, they don't really have a reason to go through all that hard work. It's about profits, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Go to the Telegraph for world news, and the local paper for weather. It is quite sickening when you really think about it.

Go to http://www.thefuckingweather.com for the weather.

The OP is acting as a consumer. If he's not pleased, he'll complain. Enough people join him, and the corporations will relent and start dishing out real news.

I don't know, but it was definitely fiction.

I would also like to thank BBC America for providing us in the USA with a nightly newscast that isn't shameful.