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TV broadcast news is irrelevant.

What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?

I literally screamed at the news presenters on TV last night. The idiotic, inaccurrate, scare mongering nonsense they were presenting drove me over the edge. I was just waiting to see some footage from the world cup and mistakenly sat through the sorry excuse for information TV news is.

Talking heads perkily lecturing in fifteen second bursts is a useless medium for explaining complexity. Tv just isn't any good at anything except showing pictures and they should stick to that. When they try and explain something they try and do it from the point of view of some sort of imagined social consensus they believe their audience shares and end up doing nothing but sprouting propaganda.

Latest sports, plays of the day, spectacular vistas, imploding buildings, pretty girls, damage and destruction. That's what TV is for. When I want to think or learn something I'll consult the Net.