Media Quality. Better in other Countries?

Touching on Wednesday’s topic about our media quality, and with Ryan’s blog to support my opinion; I strongly criticize U.S. media as well as our society for allowing the media to get away with the reporting of unimportant news. On one whole day, the media devoted time and space to “balloon boy” and everything that surrounded the controversial story. In reference to this week’s topic, how the media tends to focus on local news, this event supported mine and probably many others theory that, although other societies and cultures have adopted our system of news reporting, they seem to have a better quality of the news. For example, this day, while I turned to channels such as ABC, NBC, FOX and others, they were reporting on balloon boy, international channels from Spain and Colombia were reporting on the increase of the troops in Iraq. The topic of troops in Iraq is one who pushes certain buttons on people and because of the repetitive nature of this unknown reason why the war in the first place, will not produce as many ratings since people like to be entertained rather than concerned. Other significant issues I have noticed is that international news are much longer and thorough about news compare to the American news. This news shows last up to one hour and half, providing their audiences with a complete summary of news around the globe. American news, divide their reporting in different shows. When everything is in one show, this allows for fewer methods to avoid certain news, when the option to skip certain news because of the different showing times, can maybe make our society less cultured and informed, having said that American society rather be entertained; they will skip important global and national news, watch the local for their interest such as weather and traffic and skip to the entertainment channels afterwards.

The lack of demand of quality news from society may be the answer to the issue of why the resourcing of those interested on real news to the internet and perhaps the concern of the death of newspaper. After I saw the story on the international channels I specifically went and search for the news on the internet. This option allows for those who want to skip all the crap and get to the good stuff.