The Sad State of News - Part 1

I will not be the first to complain about news, news coverage or journalism (likely to be referred to as NEWS going forward).  I have heard those that are more qualified and conversant in these areas air their grievances, so I realize it is recognized as a problem.  Thankfully, though, there are still those that hone their craft and are really good at reporting, breaking stories and bringing attention to matters that are important, albeit not necessarily appealing to the masses.  But trying to find truly worthwhile news covered in a manner that is at least an attempt at being unbiased, sans hysteria, has become increasingly difficult.  There is not much I can do about it, so I will complain about it below and in entries to come.

1.  One of the issues with NEWS is that there is too much of it.  Without getting bogged down with semantics, my point is that there are multiple 24-hour news networks that, based on their designation, have to air something for 24 hours.  Other networks air several hours of news programming on any given day.  That being the case, a lot of worthless stuff makes it to the airwaves and also onto the internet.  Since there is typically not enough substance, or at least no one willing to produce any, things that are not really newsworthy, in my opinion, (Brad Pitt buys new dog) receive more attention than they are worth.  What has also become popular is having panels of people to discuss and analyze every minutiae of an occurrence or situation.  Similar to the issue noted above, having several people under contract to sit and talk about stuff means that they are going to sit around and talk about stuff even when there is nothing worthwhile to sit around and talk about.  Thus we are inundated with news with much of it being repetitive and a large chunk of it being worthless.