Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
What a good quote. I did one term of media studies at university and LOVED the topic. It was just as TV was changing fast, beyond recognition in my neck of the wood. I was totally blown away by CNN but obviously started to notice that sometimes they were just covering things for the sake of it, and ended up repeating themselves, stating the bleeding obvious or essentially wasting time, just to be able to say the coverage was "live".
I can't count the number of times I performed live shots on the eleven o'clock news, standing in front of absolutely NOTHING. A closed building. The location where something had happened hours ago. Just for the sake of having that stupid LIVE graphic plastered on the screen. It was all about ratings, not journalism, ultimately.