On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I read a great blog posting a few months ago by a former local TV news > director about how the focus groups and viewer research polls were > ignoring people who said they don't watch TV news instead of asking > why they weren't watching. Any maker of product that ignores people > who don't already use the product deserves to go out of business. SNIP > .. and network/cable news doesn't seem to care about a story outside the > US unless they can turn > it into a right/left thing or it's some kind of natural disaster with > visuals that will attract gawkers. > This was Andrew Sullivan's point as well about the failure of cable news to cover the Iran story - if they can't pour it into a Red State-Blue State mold, they are not much interested. This is also the problem TV news is having covering the Obama administration. Obama has been scary to conservatives and disappointing to liberals, precisely because he is trying to get beyond these easy classifications (and this is something he said he was about from very early in his campaign, though of course neither side, nor the media, really listened to him). There are things to like and things to criticize about the Obama presidency so far - but anyone who is stuck seeing it through Red-Blue glasses will not understand it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
