Today in Headlines...
cn | 09 March, 2007 11:51I would assume most people believe CNN to be a reliable source of news. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. I can't confirm that one way or the other. However, I can comment on what they run as headlines on the US section of CNN.com. Today there's the lead story - Audit Show FBI Snooping Underreported - which seems to be newsworthy, along with three of the five secondary lead stories. But the final two secondary leads are N.J. Town Rejects Sopranos Filming and Idol Down to its Final 12.
Now, is it just me or do these things seem like entertainment rather than news? Of course, news is entertainment - for most of us at least - but I think there's a certain responsibility the media overlooks so often today - the responsibility to bring the mass public data, as objectively as possible, about issues that affect our lives. My belief is that Idol and Sopranos, though entertaining, do not qualify as issues that are affecting my life to a point of me benefiting in any way of knowing the details outlined in the 'news' stories on CNN.
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