I think all morning news shows are just entertainment. The Today Show spends a lot of time showing 5 minute previews of their evening “news” shows, and laughing with each other.
Alternatively, you can switch mediums and catch NPR’s Morning Edition.
You do this too? I thought I was the only one who judged entire countries based on one episode of an entertainment program from that country.
Let me have a crack at it:
Good Morning America is to news what Olive Garden is to Italian restaurants.
Who?
The name is familiar to me, vaguely. I think he is a very sound person, or something.
I tried watching CNN. They were on the phone with an American student who happened to be in Egypt. The student was telling us how the Egyptian people felt about the situation, how the military was acting and what the point of it all was - all from the view out her window apparently. All-in-all I think Good Morning America! was a better bet for factual information.
But at Olive Garden I get breadsticks. Where the hell are my GMA breadsticks, huh? :mad:
I got your breadsticks, right here:
Far be it from me to defend GMA, but
frankly sounds a lot better than what most TV news offers, which is a few facts with way too much “interpretation.”
Isn’t he the guy they make “in a can” jokes about for some unknown reason?
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He never pretended any such thing.
I know perfectly well who Prince William is, but if i were making a point about news values and the distorted priorities of modern news organizations, i might very well refer dismissively to his upcoming wedding as “some royal marriage in England.”
Or alternatively as “the tax-payer funded beanfeast uniting two worthless anachronistic parasites.” For accuracy’s sake at least.
I take it you haven’t seen Sesame Street in a few decades, then. 
Maybe you could try NPR next time?
You’ll have to wait until ABC World News.
Assuming the local station isn’t taking up all the airtime with a pledge drive. I wanted to hear about Egypt this morning, but all I got was pledge drive, so I switched to Mike and Mike instead.
After the Tories and their LibDem lapdogs have had their way, I guess we’ll be seeing pledge drives screwing up the BBC World Service reporting soon.
Wait a second here. Sesame Street has never put forth a single thing that hasn’t been checked for accuracy.