A few days ago, The Ave reported on Hillary Clinton’s biting critique of the UN corporate infotainment system that pretends to be news.
FRox responded, “We’ve got leadership issues there, the safety of people, the safety of our own people,” said Clemente, senior vice president for Fox news.
Former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno agreed with her assessment.
“She’s right, Cable news has become cable noise. It was intended to be an opportunity to inform people, and instead it has become an opportunity to inflame people.”
The cable news shift toward opinion has paid off handsomely for ratings leader Fox News Channel and, to a lesser extent, MSNBC.
….Al-Jazeera’s Foukara said that with overseas audiences, particularly in the Arab world, the broadcaster finds a hunger for news.
“You can stay focused on a story for hours or days or even weeks on end,” he said, “while in the U.S., the assumption is that people are not as interested in news, particularly news outside of the United States.”
Sesno said the unrest in the Arab world could prove as important to Al-Jazeera as the first Gulf War was for establishing CNN in the United States. from Huff Post