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On the statement that streaming is the future of television, I completely agree. I think it is necessary for progressive social change due to the fact that subscription based services are free of censorship and Ad manipulation, since they have no sponsors to answer to. Services like HBO and Netflix are also much less caring about ratings, enabling them to deliver more niche, risky content. Surely enough, according to the O'connel article, CNN saw a 22% increase this year, and all the while people generally report a distrust in mainstream news media. They must explore the other options, where reporters give their stories time to gestate and develop and are only under the influence of how the stories realistically develop over time. I'm going to focus on the example of one program to demonstrate the importance of streaming services and how this program contrasts to its cable counterparts. That program is, "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver."
Cable Ratings 2015: 'Walking Dead's' AMC, CNN Among 4 Channels to Gain Viewers as Rivals Drop
On the statement that streaming is the future of television, I completely agree. I think it is necessary for progressive social change due to the fact that subscription based services are free of censorship and Ad manipulation, since they have no sponsors to answer to. Services like HBO and Netflix are also much less caring about ratings, enabling them to deliver more niche, risky content. Surely enough, according to the O'connel article, CNN saw a 22% increase this year, and all the while people generally report a distrust in mainstream news media. They must explore the other options, where reporters give their stories time to gestate and develop and are only under the influence of how the stories realistically develop over time. I'm going to focus on the example of one program to demonstrate the importance of streaming services and how this program contrasts to its cable counterparts. That program is, "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver."
I think that "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" is the most important news show on television today.
I personally believe that if as many people watched "Last Week Tonight" as they did the walking, talking, shit covered, banana monkey, fart spewing, hate robot show that is like watching the world's worst clowns unsuccessfully try to all mash into one of those tiny clown cars for three hours that we call the GOP Debates, that this country might be a very different, better, and more well informed place.
Why not throw in all of the people who watch the mindless, broad, pandering dribble, known as The Big Bang Theory, the highest rated sitcom on tv, on top of that number, and we might see some real change over time. Or imagine if even half the people that watched the nation wide distraction that is the super bowl, watched John Oliver.
"LWT" so deftly shows us why the main stream media 24 hour news cycle is so flawed. Airing only once a week, (often with week long breaks and months in between seasons) and being on HBO, which, as a purely subscription based service, is completely free of the grip of ads and much less dependent on ratings, he really is able to dig into the issues, and lay them bare, having actually thoroughly researched, prepared and, investigated his stories.
This is something the major news networks just cannot do because they don't have the time or the resources. This often leads to very surface level news casting and sometimes just plain old false reporting as each network rushes to break stories first, even ahead of the actual stories themselves. We need to see a return to form to good, accountable, investigative journalism in the mainstream media. The public deserves it. We need to wake up to what is really going on.
Annyone who tells you that it's a fake news show just because it incorporates humor into its messages, well, just tell them to fuck off and go watch more of the bland grey splotches on CNN. Final words: "The news used to dictate what it broadcast, and now the broadcast(er) dictates, for the most part, what is or isn't news.
Annyone who tells you that it's a fake news show just because it incorporates humor into its messages, well, just tell them to fuck off and go watch more of the bland grey splotches on CNN. Final words: "The news used to dictate what it broadcast, and now the broadcast(er) dictates, for the most part, what is or isn't news.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Angles Of Visions Response
First of all I think I need to pay more attention in class so that this stuff doesn't just come up outta nowhere. Ms. Allen you gotta yell at me more. Whack me over the head with a desk when I fall asleep. I also like how this thing corrected me on the word outta but not the word gotta. Anyway, I think that what Tim O'Brien is trying to say about truth is that if you don't hear anything to the contrary of what someone told you then it is true. I think that Emily Dickinson is trying to say that truth is a force to be reckoned with. She's trying to say that truth can destroy worlds but also raise them up. I think that Neil Gaiman is trying to say that just because you don't believe something doesn't make it untrue. I think what all of these authors views on truth has in common is that truth is actually subjective. And that subjectiveness is what makes truth so powerful. Everyone has their own opinion on it, their own story. Wars have been started over what may or may not have been the truth. I like the poems the best because it takes something so complicated as truth and lays it bare in so little words. A gift like that is a beautiful thing.
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