NationStates Jolt Archive

A sailor who happened to be an old friend of mine fell overboard off the coast of Japan. they searched for him for a couple of days and then they quite and officially declared him missing at sea.

how did i find out about this? a friend sent me a link from the local news channels from the sailors (and my old) hometown that covered the incident. they were the only ones to cover it. the network news channels wouldnt even touch the story. instead network news channels decide to cover a sotry that there might be a bill that does something about gay marriage in some state or some other over beaten story that they will mention again in five minutes.

im not saying that this is the only story news networks have just left out. i know there are many. but do you think that Network news channels have a different set of news priorities?

at times it seems they are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill with a subject that no one cared about. and they seem to try and start conflicts off subjects that people wouldnt even give a second look at.

I was going to say that it's just not.. hot news right now..

But then I remembered how they kept talking about that guy who went missing on that cruise ship..

Can't make sense out of it..

Network news' priorities have switched to getting ratings. They do this by trying to frighten the crap out of you so you'll watch. For example, they'll run a commercial asking "Some schools hire convicted pedophiles as math teachers. Is your child at risk? Find out on News 10 at 10." Then after you've freaked out and taken your child to the hospital for a rape kit and to a psychologist to unlock repressed memories of abuse the news reveals that the "school" is actually an educational program in a prison or something.

For the gay marriage thing first of all is about wheter or not people will be granted their rights which is important but also you can get a rise out of people about gay marriage. They can do something about it, it affects them more. A lost saloir, you hear about it and it's sad but after that....

For the gay marriage thing first of all is about wheter or not people will be granted their rights which is important but also you can get a rise out of people about gay marriage. They can do something about it, it affects them more. A lost saloir, you hear about it and it's sad but after that....


shows the agenda of some of these "nonbiased" news networks. and everyone always say fox is the worst at being biased.

I think ships should have higher railings

Network news' priorities have switched to getting ratings. They do this by trying to frighten the crap out of you so you'll watch. For example, they'll run a commercial asking "Some schools hire convicted pedophiles as math teachers. Is your child at risk? Find out on News 10 at 10." Then after you've freaked out and taken your child to the hospital for a rape kit and to a psychologist to unlock repressed memories of abuse the news reveals that the "school" is actually an educational program in a prison or something.And that is why I don't watch Network News anymore. Well part of the reason, moving someplace with 1/10 as many people as where I lived before has led to a significant decline in the quality of the news production.