Do you remember that show? It was about a news anchor named Murphy Brown. In it she works on the hard hitting news show FYI and has to deal with the dumbing down of the news.
They often use to exaggerate the dumber story's the other news shows would deal with to add to the humorous spin on things! But now looking back on the stories that were the parody's of the stupid news of the 80's I realised something.
Our news reporting has gotten worse!
News shows today are worse than the silly parodied news reports in the 80's!
To re iterate, they use to joke the news reporting was getting so dumbed down, but now the news reporting is more dumbed down then the joke reporting of the 80's!
Now real life news reporting is the joke!
How sad is the world when the silly parodied news of the 80's is more legit than the "real" news of the year 2011!
What have we become?
Where do you guys get your news from?
Never heard of it, I gotta check it out sometime! Great post!
ReplyDeletei get my news from the internet. i don't even have a tv and the local newspaper is boring
ReplyDeleteI have t watch Jon Stewart to follow Ron Paul. The MSM does not like Ron Paul, they can not buy Ron Paul!!!
ReplyDeletei never heard about this show
ReplyDeleteI remember this show. And you're right, reporting has become purely entertainment. There's a few good real journalists out there, but they're mainly in alternative press or foreign press. RT (Russia Today) is a good source for real journalism, and so is Al Jazeera, but most American and British news is either pure propaganda or mind numbing gossip.
ReplyDeletei skim through the paper every morning and thats it
ReplyDeleteWherever seems most legitimate if I even care at the moment. Internet.
ReplyDelete80% of my news come from internet, 20% between tv and newspaper.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty good show. But kind of dated now though.
ReplyDeleteHaven't even heard about this. :/
ReplyDeleteI don't watch the news. Unless Philip DeFranco counts.
ReplyDeleteLmao, so true. Definitely remember that show too.
ReplyDeleteUgh, now you have brought back all my memories of Murphy Brown...damn my Grandma loved that show.
ReplyDeleteI get most of my news off the internet now. Local stuff, I'll watch on TV, but for national news, its just all pundits who literally argue which party is better than the other (instead of issues). Although I guess there is also all the news on celebrities and their problems/opinions I could care less about.
So I guess its close to what GM said: 80% online, 15% TV, 5% newspaper.
I effin' hate this show. It replaced one of my favorite TV shows when I was a kid and I never forgave it.
ReplyDeletenever watched this! nice blog
ReplyDeleteYeah, pretty sad.
ReplyDeleteI mostly ignore the mainstream news, cause they're full of shit.
Good post!
ReplyDeleteFunny Picture of the Day
Never heard of this im afraid looks O ,O spunky!
ReplyDeleteLOL! I remember watching Murphy Brown!! :D
ReplyDeleteI get my news from the voices in my head
ReplyDeleteI've never seen this show.
ReplyDeletebleh, I used to hate that show. I've never liked news, lol. I get most of my news by word of mouth. Nebberz frequents reddit, and that's where he gets his news. But we don't have TV and we don't really listen to radio... I hear a lot about things on Facebook actually... lol and just the internet in general.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair I never really got into this show, but I started watching it a few times after the episode of Seinfield when Krammer was on it as the assistant.
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