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bbarnett on Feb 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

This is mostly what 6pm news was like, before the rise of 24 news channels.

Out of an hour of news, there was sports coverage in one quarter, local news in another with weather, national and then international news.

Each segment had, after commercials, 12 to 13 minutes max.

There wasn't time for all the speculation, and endless drone on about what if, and blah blah.

24 hours news half destroyed news first, then the internet finished it off.

robryan on Feb 23, 2022 [–]

I don't think the news has changed all that much, there still used to be a heavy focus on the same types of negative topics. What has obviously changed is the large amount of commentary that has sprung up around traditional newsreading.

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