Jan 18, 2015

News, then and now

As part of the colloquy I'm taking, Public discourse in the Age of Technology I was sentenced to listening to a local news report and a half hour of national news. Gawd!!! It was awful. Maybe there was no news that day, which is why they spent so much time on irrelevancies.

To keep from killing myself I logged what went on, roughly minute by minute for 15 minutes of local news, and 30 minutes of national. My log's at the end. Looking over the log it did not seem as horrible as it seemed watching it live.

Was it always this horrible? No. Here's are two online videos of news, as it was in the day. The first is of about a third of Walter Cronkite's first broadcast, in September 1963. The second is one of three parts of a Cronkite broadcast in September 1977.



The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite - 3... by videohollic

6:15 Lumber Liquidators
Nexium 24 hours
Dr. Scholls machine
6:16 Tamiflu (prior news story about killer flu)
6:17 Dodging debris 25,000 crashjes
51,000 crashes
Youtube videos
Someone blinded
Making it illegal
6:18 Dodging debris what to do
Still ahead: sky high record penthouse
Coming: betty white birthday
6:19 COPD spiriva medication
Solmpas
Hoovewr floormat
Ciallis
6:22 Ciallis
Galavant (TV show)
:30 Neil patrick harris
:43 March through Selma
Up next: Penthouse $100M 11K square feet
Cast and crew of TVLand Flash Hula Mob for Betty White 93 years
23:41   Rise of dashcam diva
23:55 High blood sugar farxiga.com
6:25…..
   :22 Ally bank
   :38 Xantac
   :55   Philips fiber
  25:12 Advil
     :25  Scandal TV show
     :38  Promo for World News
     :54  Dashcam
6:27:
 :28     continued
 :28:36 Sign off news

           This week promo


6:30 Teaser:
  Romney run
Bonnie and clyde spree
Cosby’s last stand
Disabled vets bakery
6:31 Logo
Romney run
6:32 Romney run clippage
Mother Jones clip
6:33 Hilary people like Romney running
6:34 Europe on high alert hunting for ISIS agents
Troops on streets
More troops on the way...going to 300 people
Upset in Islamic neighborhood
2 doz suspects arrested
6:36 More on EU
6:36 Pope visited Philippines
Express sympathy with typhoon 7K people dead
6:37 Woman killed by scaffolding
Criticism of gay marriage
Praised church birth control
6:38 Solidarity with the poor
Attendance expected to break the record
18 year old boy and 13 year old girl
Modern bonnie and clyde
6:39 Bad comparison. Not killed people
Found in Wal Mart
Last vehicle had 2 handguns
Text he was fine
6:40 Continued
Monday electrical malfunction
Smoke pouring into tunnel
6:41 Not reported for a long time
Radio system was down
30 minutes after smoke, people call 911
200 people trapped
Emergency door not opening
1 woman died
6:42 Could take a year to investigate
Measles outbreak: at least 51 cases
May exclude kids from school
Preview: cosby, condo
6:43 Robitussin
Dr Scholl
Wounded Warrior Project
6:44 ….
6:45 Dog food
Philips Fibergood
NFL Colts/Pats promo
6:46 Cosby demonstration (probably 6 people)
6:47 “What if these allegations aren’t true?”
6:48 Cosby show cancelled
Greg Anthony soliciting prost
6:49 Coach running up score 161-2
Promo: champ
Salonpos pain
COPD medicine Sporiva
6:50 Sporiva continues
Viagra
6:51 Viagra
Alka seltzer]
6:52 Face the Nation promo
Photo of manhattan from 1.5 mile
Penthouse suite
Onassis notes auction $28K
6:53 Ali 73rd b’day
Promo: priest plan for vets
Advil
COPD Symbacort
6:54 Cialis “Get help for an erection lasting more than 4 hours”
Medifacts Dulcalax laxative
:55 Coricidin HPB
CBS live digital network
Closing
:56 Dogtag bakery
:57
:58 continuing…
Wrapup
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