The Media Drop

That’s what Rory O’Connor is saying about news networks in an article over at mediachannel.org. What’s disturbing is, quotes and theories we all have in our heads about how the news is giving us….well, news are painfully unrealistic. In the article, CBS News President Andrew Heyward says the most important issue is that “opinion has begun to drive out fact-based reporting — especially on cable television.” Ain’t that the truth. While Fox News is an easy target for its rightward lean, all the stations have programs that are based in opinion rather than “news reporting” which dominate their lineups. Apparently people are eating it up, though, so what’s a network to do?