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Old 06-15-2008, 02:41 AM
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Default Re: Frustrated by KOCO's constant interruptions

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Originally Posted by AFCM View Post
It is crap. Task yourself with finding ANY television news broadcast that is critical of ANY of their sponsors. Reporters only report what the sponsors want them to report, and the agency will report anything in any manner that gets them more sponsors. There you have it. News agencies are sellouts, and what you're watching is crap.
That statement is ridiculous... that's the truth... We report news PERIOD nobody but the editorial team tells us what to report, there are no sponsers sitting in our editorial meetings... maybe if everyone in this state wasn't so uneducated we could raise the bar and use bigger words, but people wouldn't understand.

The FCC when they gave broadcasters free use of the airwaves (yes believe it or not we still send our signal through the air) they gave them to us without charge! The only thing we had to do in return was provide news to the public. Provide timely information about the world surroundings. The news was readily available on CBS Radio from Murrow's The World Today a 15 minute program. November, 18th 1951 was first TV broadcast of See It Now, produced by Fred Friendly and directed by Don Hewitt in magazine format, broadcast coast-to-coast using newly-completed coaxial cable. This was the time of television heroes, when America turned to the evening news programs and trusted their presenters. There weren't talking heads offering up their two cents, they didn't share their opinion, They delivered the news, gave us the facts, and allowed us to make our own choice, and draw our own conclusions. I think when we as journalists forget that we are performing a public service to our viewers, we are nothing more that the biased idiot media that most of America stereotypes us as. I work where I work because I believe we deliver the most unbiased opinion in the market. We don't have any Ogle's offering up their opinions.. IT'S THE NEWS NOT YOUR NEWSPAPER OP ED COLUMN. THE NEWS IS FACT PERIOD!
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