SilentWolf on 25 January 2008
| Rath said: @Sqrl. I only read the first part of your post before I realised that you didn't really understand journalism. A war that has been going on for 3 years and nothing interesting is happening in it will not get coverage. The only time it will get coverage is when things go bad or when something like the troop surge occurs. |
I don't think that that is what he is talking about. He isn't saying that when nothing happens, they don't say anything about the war. I think he is saying that when good things happen, they don't say anything about the war.
In my opinion, people seem to want to hear about the bad news more than the good, and since Fox probably wants good ratings, they are going to choose to air bad news over any good news. I feel that a good journalist will talk about both the good and the bad, but a journalist that wants attention will only reprt on the bad. So in my opinion Fox(and a number of other news sources) is one large attention-wanting journalist.
