What Should the Media (Not) Talk About?

When you're in the military, they stress that we shouldn't EVER tell ANYONE when you're leaving on a mission, where your mission is taking you, what kind of mission it is, etc. We take this "never tell" concept very seriously and I wish the media would do the same. I also wish they'd stop reporting on things that are irrelivant to, well, anything. MJ is still dead and is in no way related or a re-encarnation of some Egyption from thousands of years ago, the Obama's are all media w%^&*s who's main mission is to drive this country into the ground (though I'm sure they're wonderful people), and there are problems with any democratically forced bill as well as a slight economic depression that we're all trying to work through. (That's my short list)

Had a dyslexic moment, meant "Destroy". LOL, it's been one of those days!

I've grown tired and weary of the media trying to destory the Presidency (you know who you are!) just because they're disgruntled with the present policy agenda.

I think the news media ought to avoid certain topics that might foil police or government efforts to apprehend criminals. For example, "The police are searching the neighborhoods near Lake Buena Vista for the suspects." Great! Now the fugitive knows exactly where NOT to be. Or, how about "Our nuclear facilities have the following weaknesses that have officials worried about a potential terrorist attack." Sheesh! Give it all away, why don't you?

How about just reporting the news; no commentary, just the news! How I miss Huntlely & Brinkley. (But that was before the News Agencies had been forced to bow to the "bottom line".

If you spend one penny on those trashy, hateful, supermarket checkout aisle gossip magazines, I'm afraid YOU are guilty of what everybody seems to agree is what they should not cover... The media are for profit, so they will be covering what their big advertisers want them to cover - and ignoring things that they don't want people to know about. The big pharmaceutical conglomerates basically run the media now. Even Fox.

Gossip sells because people like to read it. Even hough I profess to 'hate" it, I can't seem to stop skimming the headlines at the grocery check out stand, and have to force myself to NOT pick up a copy of People magazine to read more. That being said, gossip is gossip, how about if we simply stop calling it news. It's not news, it follows none of the guidelines that journalists are presumed to follow.

As for 'bad" news, this also sells because people buy it. Magazines and newspapers print what sells, because when it comes down to it, it is a business and they also have bills to pay. Now that the face of newspapers, magazines and journalism is becoming reader generated, maybe we will see a shift in type of things people are interested in hearing about. But then again, maybe not. At least we will be getting a more well rounded version as people with different viewpoints express their version, leaving the responsibility up to the reader to form their own opinion.

I get tired of celebrity gossip run into the ground. Once the tragedy of the death of a celebrity wears off than comes the scandal & negative publicity.

Although it's interesting to see what some high profile people are doing, they still deserve a certain amount of privacy & respect. It's a shame an event such as a wedding, birthday party or child's baptism is interrupted & upset by the media & paparazzi.

I've long since given up on the morning network "news" shows. Thank goodness for CNN and MSNBC. But even they had to talk about Michael Jackson. I'm sorry for his family but he and other celebrities are nothing to me. Stick to the news! I agree with Brie, there are many other things going on in the world that never get reported. Let's have more science, medicine, archaeology etc. news. Save the celebrities and other "news" for the E network.

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