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TV news is not very instructive.

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

In the United States, the mainstream news outlets like to portray themselves as observers, content to let events play out without interference. But in Britain, where crusading journalistic campaigns are part of the tradition, it is far more acceptable for reporters to become active participants, with a specific outcome in mind.

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.