31-12-2022, 08:31 AM
I've never understood why they felt the need to show what their rivals are reporting. It doesn't happen with any other medium - You don't get the newspapers going through what News at 10 reported last night. There aren't radio programmes flicking through what's on Buzzfeed today
TV is the superior news medium, instantaneous and up to date, a lot of newspaper content isn't even news. The influence of newspapers over the public discourse has long been too high, but thankfully its declining along with their readership. About time TV, particularly the BBC ditched it's obsession with newspapers.... they don't return the favour, quite the opposite
It's more expensive than just another half hour of rolling news. Those guests don't do it for free, the bits of newspaper they're looking at don't appear without some production effort
TV is the superior news medium, instantaneous and up to date, a lot of newspaper content isn't even news. The influence of newspapers over the public discourse has long been too high, but thankfully its declining along with their readership. About time TV, particularly the BBC ditched it's obsession with newspapers.... they don't return the favour, quite the opposite
It's more expensive than just another half hour of rolling news. Those guests don't do it for free, the bits of newspaper they're looking at don't appear without some production effort