Comments on: If I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it! http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/2008/04/23/if-i-want-your-opinion-i%e2%80%99ll-ask-for-it/ Do great work, enjoy the process Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Scott Wolf http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/2008/04/23/if-i-want-your-opinion-i%e2%80%99ll-ask-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Scott Wolf Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:54:04 +0000 http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/?p=139#comment-361 The news is definitely becoming more entertainment than journalism. CNN now lets you make t-shirts out of some of it's offbeat headlines: http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/allshirts/index.html The news is definitely becoming more entertainment than journalism. CNN now lets you make t-shirts out of some of it’s offbeat headlines: http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/allshirts/index.html

]]> By: Cassandra http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/2008/04/23/if-i-want-your-opinion-i%e2%80%99ll-ask-for-it/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Cassandra Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:38:16 +0000 http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/?p=139#comment-360 I couldn't agree with you more. I remember the nightly news with Peter Jennings and the reporting of the news very fondly. The tipping point is still fuzzy for me but it seems that news outlets have started to view their voice almost as a blog littered with opinions and not as a reporting channel. Somewhere in the midst of ratings and advertising spots journalists became "tv personalities". The concern that I have is what proportion of the population disagrees with you and thus wants to be told how to react, view, feel about a news story? I couldn’t agree with you more. I remember the nightly news with Peter Jennings and the reporting of the news very fondly.

The tipping point is still fuzzy for me but it seems that news outlets have started to view their voice almost as a blog littered with opinions and not as a reporting channel. Somewhere in the midst of ratings and advertising spots journalists became “tv personalities”. The concern that I have is what proportion of the population disagrees with you and thus wants to be told how to react, view, feel about a news story?

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