Breaking News: Here to Entertain You Response

The blog, Breaking News: Here to Entertain You, argues that news broadcasts use too much entertainment. I mean sure the news is heavily entertainment oriented, but I don't see this as a problem. The blogger brings up the issue about how the use of entertainment takes away from the content and seriousness of news broadcasts. However, entertainment is vital in order to keep viewers in tune, which in turn, keeps money flowing in from advertisers. Having news segments be entertaining is perfectly fine as long as the broadcasters get the main points across about an important story. We don't need to know every detail about every story broadcasted, we can find out more information on our own time, if we're interested enough. If the news broadcasted all the small details in every story, they wouldn't have enough time to talk about every story that they need to get through. However, maybe these super short excerpts of the important things happening in our world are the cause of why there can also be so many excerpts of unimportant events shown on the daily news as well. 






But, then again, maybe there are just not that many big events happening in the world at all times. 






One reason I think the news publishes stories so lame as, "Mom arrested for taking 5-year-old tanning", is because they don't have any other stories to publish at the time. Therefore, they need to take whatever juicy, entertaining, somewhat interesting information tidbit and form a news story out of it in order to keep people tuned in to their news stations at all times. These little stories just spice up our lives and keep us entertained! And frankly, I see no problem with entertainment in the news as long as broadcasters portray the basics about what is going on in the world around me!