Frontline: News Wars

Network news has gone soft due to the profit motive because of pressure from parent companies. Hard reporting and true investigative journalism has been replaced with ratings and pleasing the shareholders. "The tragedy of journalism" is when news channels provide what the audience WANTS to hear, not what they ought to see and hear. Once companies realized that the news could make big profits, it began to transition to news segments. With the Reagan era deregulation when large companies bought over the big 3 companies, NBC, ABC, CBS, the real move to make wall street happy and streamlining the workforce has taken place. It's about keeping stories alive, and the new form of online "journalism" blogging. While only 33% of bloggers polled said they were trying to a form of journalism. This video series does an excellent job giving viewers a look at how these companies operate and the struggles of keeping real journalism alive and not focusing on ratings.

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