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Re: What Documentaries Influenced You Most and Why?
by Todd Terry on Aug 6, 2008 at 7:27:43 pm

As a former veteran of the TV news biz, I have to chime in a little...

The news networks may all be propaganda outlets of various flavors, but really, propaganda is largely incidental. It's message secondarily, show business first.

Back when I was in the game I used to have a sign in my office (until the news director made me take it down) that said "I'm not a journalist, but I play one on TV." Which was very very sadly true.

Ed Murrow is dead. Now the main (and some would say only) goal is to attract viewers so they can push advertising time. Period. If they can do that better by hiring extreme right or left mouthpieces and commentators and adopting a conservative or liberal faux-position in news "coverage," that's what it's all about. It's not really about imparting ideas, distributing political philosophy, or changing the world. It's about selling soap.


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