Not sure I'd agree that he's excluding the "opinion shows" on MSM stations.seacoaster wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:53 amYeah, he is not talking about the "MSM" at all. He's talking about the fractured, zero-barriers to entry "news" market, where everything is said and nothing can be confirmed -- where everything is "facts."MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 8:49 amCradle,cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:54 am https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wash ... people-off I have not been much of a Brokaw fan but he sure nailed what is wrong with the MSM today.
He uses the term, "current media", not Main Stream Media (MSM). Meaning including every piece of trash and propaganda, left and right, that comes through your facebook, Twitter, youtube, instagram, as well as TV. The dispersion has created great diversity, but a loss of expectation of journalistic ethics, and an emphasis on audience engagement rather than education.
"MSM" generally means (according to Fox hosts) the major news networks (except for Fox, certainly not OANN), the major newspapers (WAPO, NYT, WSJ, USAToday, etc but not the rags), a few magazines. What they really mean is those who still hold themselves out (reasonably) as actually having journalistic standards, yet are 'liberal' from the perspective of the hard right.
Brokaw, however, is talking about the full spectrum of "current media".
“I think the most extraordinarily powerful tool and the most destructive development in modern life is the current media,” said the author and TV Hall of Famer.
In an interview with Artful Living shared with Secrets, he criticized the dividing nature of media and questioned if it can change.
“Everybody has a voice — and I think it’s great for people to have a voice — but there’s no way to verify what’s true and what’s not. It has no context; it’s just a 24/7 rage about what’s pissing people off across the board from the left to the right,” he told the Minneapolis-based lifestyle magazine.
It's not 100% clear that he includes all media outlets as "24-7 rage", indeed he undoubtedly believes there are gradations of such. But I'd bet that he includes his own network, NBC, especially MSNBC, as one of the contributors. It's clear, to me, that he's not giving a pass to the "MSM" TV shows, especially the endless opinion shows.
Indeed, any reasonable perspective would agree that as cable created the opportunity for "24-7" the need to fill the time led to far less editorial restriction on what is aired and what is not. When you only had a half hour to do national news, you edited that down to the bare essential. In this 24-7 world, you're competing for those eyeballs with opinion and argumentation.
"a 24/7 rage about what’s pissing people off across the board from the left to the right."
But he's sure as heck not focused on "MSM" as cradle suggests.
