Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.
If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.