News as entertainment?
Thursday, September 27th, 2007One of the biggest changes in news broadcasting over the past 20 year has been the change in the overall business model. Where once, networks looked at the news division as a means of providing up to date current information to the consumer, where the news divisions did not have to make a profit, to an environment know that has come full circle, to a point where the news divisions are all about making money. This is one of the primary reasons so many news outlets spend so much time covering so called news stories that would never have been considered news just 20 years ago.