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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 778103" data-attributes="member: 9859">Re: Obamanation here today&nbsp;&nbsp;Lue, the media has reitterated Jon Stewart’s point for him. Baba-Lue and Co, you&#039;all need to break away from Cable news entertainment that passes as news, and demand this type of programing return to its original purpose of factual reporting and news gathering. This will never happen because of how profitable the current model is. Fox News makes a mountain of profit. MSNBC is one of the most profitable divisions in the whole NBC family. Even CNN despite their ratings struggle pulls in strong profits.The cable news media has shifted from being run as a public service with a civic duty to report the news to a center for corporate profits. Ironically, Jon Stewart has been making profits as well, although, he has been the singular voice advocating for “restoring sanity” to our media. That’s what the 10/30 rally is about. It is about getting rid of lame, slick, branding, and replacing it with programming that is informative. As Stewart himself has proven with his comedy show, it is possible to be entertaining and informative, but as long as news divisions are being run with only profit in mind, our news will continue to vanish from what are supposed to be news networks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 778103, member: 9859"] [b]Re: Obamanation here today[/b] Lue, the media has reitterated Jon Stewart’s point for him. Baba-Lue and Co, you'all need to break away from Cable news entertainment that passes as news, and demand this type of programing return to its original purpose of factual reporting and news gathering. This will never happen because of how profitable the current model is. Fox News makes a mountain of profit. MSNBC is one of the most profitable divisions in the whole NBC family. Even CNN despite their ratings struggle pulls in strong profits. The cable news media has shifted from being run as a public service with a civic duty to report the news to a center for corporate profits. Ironically, Jon Stewart has been making profits as well, although, he has been the singular voice advocating for “restoring sanity” to our media. That’s what the 10/30 rally is about. It is about getting rid of lame, slick, branding, and replacing it with programming that is informative. As Stewart himself has proven with his comedy show, it is possible to be entertaining and informative, but as long as news divisions are being run with only profit in mind, our news will continue to vanish from what are supposed to be news networks. [/QUOTE]

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