Brutal honesty from a former Denver TV reporter.
"The truth is, TV news doesn’t sparkle the way it once did. People don’t rush home to watch the four, five and six o'clock news anymore, because they don’t need to.
"But the problem is, most new is just simply unnecessary. When there’s a slow news day, we can’t just go home and play an extra commercial. We still have to fill time...which means we get the job of making something out of nothing. "But death and destruction sure is...and you watch it. And they know you watch it, because you share it online, and that gives us article clicks we can throw more ads on."Two-thousand years ago In ancient Rome, thousands of fans would pack the Colosseum to watch the gladiators cut off the arms of their opponent, bleed, scream and fight until they were finished off by an animal or sword.
"I’m tired of tracking down the parents of dead kids to ask them how sad they are so you can watch them cry at five o'clock."There are more factors, too. Reporters don’t get paid shit, we don’t have off most holidays and are almost always on call. Thousands of journalists make it work. But for me, it was time to walk away.
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