Wednesday, January 7, 2015

TV NEWS THAT ISN'T STUPID!! Finally

http://www.alternet.org/media/its-miracle-i-found-tv-news-isnt-insanely-stupid?akid=12657.294211.bJezze&rd=1&src=newsletter1029854&t=5

This may be the kiss of death, but One America News is my new favorite TV news network.
There are two small miracles to celebrate here.  One is that the Herrings have so far walked the talk about walling off opinion programming from news.  OAN does this largely by licensing its news content from respected syndicators like Euronews and Reuters (and not from the Washington Times, which seems to have fallen off OAN’s map).  It turns out that there’s plenty of straight, substantive TV journalism being produced in the world, there just hasn’t been an American cable station using so much of it before.  Better still, OAN resists cheap shots.  A piece about states enacting renewable energy standards to reduce America’s dependence on fossil fuel does not shoehorn climate change denial into the story; coverage of the end of the Obama family vacation doesn’t rag him for playing golf;

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