Is honest media enough? There's a lot of talk about #FakeNews and biased news, but what about irrelevant news?
Often on cable networks, the "news" is completely irrelevant to the average American. The topics that are important to the TV networks aren't important to anyone else.
The commentary that TV hosts provide is not what most Americans are concerned with on a day-to-day basis.
Sure, the mainstream media should tell the truth—obviously—but it must do more than that. The media should talk about issues that are important to Americans. Our news should cover topics that matter and are relevant to the majority of the country.
This is the big danger in today's biased media: networks are so focused on the winners and losers in Washington that they forget to pay attention to the rest of America. The mainstream media shouldn't just worry about being fake or biased, it also needs to be relevant.
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Transcript:
There's a whole lot said about "fake news" or "biased news." Let's talk about irrelevant news for a minute.
How many times are you watching cable news, and, unless you're living in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., LA, San Francisco, or Chicago, what you're watching there really is completely irrelevant to you. The topics that are most important to them aren't things that are really important to you. The perspective that they bring to the table, the arguments that you see them having are not the arguments that you'd be having with anyone that's important to you in your life.
I know that we want our news media to tell us the truth, of course. That should go without saying. We also want them to do more than that. We want them to actually talk about things that are important to us, that matter to us, that are relevant in our lives. That's the real danger of today's news media, especially when it is so focused on the winners and losers in Washington, D.C.
Don't worry about being fake or biased. Just be relevant.
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