News is becoming all about ads and the distribution of press releases. Actual News and reporting seems to be dying.

frankly a newsroom is a thing of the past when you consider how great the stories are provided by pr firms, ad agencies, etc., i mean, they often also provide simple to understand graphics that prove so conclusively what they're saying, beautifully shot interviews, and of course, there's never any controversy connected to any of their stories.... well, that is unless you actually do have genuine journalists in your newsroom....

This simply one of the first overt signs of what has been creeping into the "news" for some time now. For years the TV networks have been weaning viewers onto dumbed-down news bulletins that feature simplified reports, five-second grabs or half-sentence sound bites that require very litlle thinking about on the part of the viewer. Then they started including dreadful quality video shot on mobile/cell phones/tablets, but it didn't matter that it was dreadful because it was on-the-spot, real-time, imagery.

We the consumer lapped it up and gave impetus to this new, hybrid news system that is part Internet quality, part broadcast quality. Soon enough everyone thought that they were a reporter and the Networks have done nothing to temper this new wave of news gathering. It was inevitable that something like these mass dismissals would happen. Just wait for the next big thing, where "funniest home videos" or "bloopers" move to the next level and the Networks start producing shows cobbled together from seriously amateurish video and call it the "real" reality TV.....

Oooh news acting these days is sooo bad.


cheese Anderson you must duck “after” you hear the sound and then crap yourself not giggle like a little school girl and your green screen kungfu no good.

It's another reflection of consumers in the mirror of media. In the past two decades, fast and cheap have trumped quality at every turn. Wal-Mart, McDonalds, iTunes... thanks for kick-starting the trend. We're in the midst of the first generation whose music and video entertainment are lower in quality than the previous generation's - and they are thrilled with it. I move that we all begin shooting funny cat videos with our iPhones, or be left to go the way of dinosaurs.

@ Rory Cooper,

I am not sure about the YouTube video but the deep low thunder bass was incredible! I never figured that my little 8" sub woofer could play that. And it even shook the room!

Does an explosion of that type make such a thunder type bass?

Been having a lot of thunderstorms here lately and yesterday there was some house shaking thunder. Same type of sound. Maybe they dubbed in a recording from a thunderstorm?

McDonalds

I've over three decades old and McDonalds has been around a lot longer then I have.

The best newscast I ever saw was on CNN several years ago by an attractive lady who gave the news one story after another without commercial breaks for 1/2 holur and without one mistake of grammer and not one stupid gee gaw of claptrap comments. That impressed the hell out of me.
JJK

I'm over five decades old, but was able to avoid eating there for the first three :-).

Just Google "5 Corporations", and you'll see what many believe

Had a one day training session with a Canadian broadcaster I work for.
Can't tell you the name, but the initials are CBC.
They issued iPhone 5s.
Reporters can file stills, video and audio from the field to the plant.
One journalist files for the web, TV and radio.
All part of integration.
Photogs have been shooting video for papers for years.
Audio too.
Reporters have been shooting video and stills.
Lots of cross over.
And more to come.
Be a storyteller.
Not a shooter, a writer or a photographer.
The luxury of those specialties is fast fading.

I'm over six deca,.....