Comments on: Not the News http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/01/25/not-the-news/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: amity http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/01/25/not-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-137233 amity Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:53:50 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/?p=1529#comment-137233 Thank you, Ghost. Yes, C-SPAN was an excellent source to get information during the elections without the spin and blather from so-called media pundits, and gives more opportunity to the viewer to make up his own mind. Thank you, Ghost. Yes, C-SPAN was an excellent source to get information during the elections without the spin and blather from so-called media pundits, and gives more opportunity to the viewer to make up his own mind.

]]> By: Ghost http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/01/25/not-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-137197 Ghost Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:41:55 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/?p=1529#comment-137197 Atanu - also do not forget C-SPAN (if you have watched that while in the US). I am a total C-SPAN junkie - they have some of the best guests and the whole thing is entirely non-partisan. No one cuts each other off and discussions are really well developed. I took an idea for low-budget, high quality programming to an investor once - they laughed me out of the building. But I think the space is ripe in India for at least a dozen C-SPAN type channels - one in each of the major language markets. Sadly nobody in India will fund it - everyone is too busy developing saas-bahu crap and mind numbing banality in the name of network news Atanu – also do not forget C-SPAN (if you have watched that while in the US). I am a total C-SPAN junkie – they have some of the best guests and the whole thing is entirely non-partisan. No one cuts each other off and discussions are really well developed.
I took an idea for low-budget, high quality programming to an investor once – they laughed me out of the building. But I think the space is ripe in India for at least a dozen C-SPAN type channels – one in each of the major language markets. Sadly nobody in India will fund it – everyone is too busy developing saas-bahu crap and mind numbing banality in the name of network news

]]> By: amity http://www.deeshaa.org/2009/01/25/not-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-137196 amity Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:28:54 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/?p=1529#comment-137196 That's one of the reasons I don't get news from TV, as the format with ticker-tape, breaking news etc. most likely leads to ADHD which can't be good. It's such a jumble and so confusing, and leads to knee-jerk reactions to events. As for PBS, it's mostly funded by government, viewer donations and some corporations (with very limited ads - they just mention the name at the beginning and at the end). So seems like we have a contradiction. :) Free-market leads to stupid news format as competition to be ahead forces producers to come up with meaningless gimmicks, whereas government funded programs maintain their better standards. Data suggests there's a give-and-take involved here between news standards and money, not unlike Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. If you can figure out a way to keep higher standards *and* fund such news and programs on TV using free market economy, let us know. *grin* I think we're simply getting addicted to "information" as our brains need constant stimulation, and it takes some discipline to place limits on the amount as well as nature of that information. That’s one of the reasons I don’t get news from TV, as the format with ticker-tape, breaking news etc. most likely leads to ADHD which can’t be good. It’s such a jumble and so confusing, and leads to knee-jerk reactions to events.

As for PBS, it’s mostly funded by government, viewer donations and some corporations (with very limited ads – they just mention the name at the beginning and at the end).

So seems like we have a contradiction. :)

Free-market leads to stupid news format as competition to be ahead forces producers to come up with meaningless gimmicks, whereas government funded programs maintain their better standards.

Data suggests there’s a give-and-take involved here between news standards and money, not unlike Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. If you can figure out a way to keep higher standards *and* fund such news and programs on TV using free market economy, let us know. *grin*

I think we’re simply getting addicted to “information” as our brains need constant stimulation, and it takes some discipline to place limits on the amount as well as nature of that information.

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