>>If anyone wants to make a million dollars - make a real news tv channel.
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>News don't exist anymore. If you think this is some conspiracy theory, well, you have just described the conspiracy practice. You shall not know what's going on.
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>It is obvious. Meanwhile, the ties of the Boston bombers to the CIA (one's wife related to one of the ex bosses, plus more) are not news. EU passing a law that seed production is to be tightly controlled... with the provision that whichever manufacturer has a big enough laboratory can be trusted to control themselves (read Monsanto et al) - not news either.
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>And the local news, I once wrote a little .scx with three buttons which would add time to three independent counters, counting time. First counter was for content, 2nd for ads, 3rd for self-advertising of the channel. And guess what, the local news takes about 20% of the time. The rest is ads, or announcements of the "coming soon", "in a few minutes you'll see" and even ads for their own weather service. And then these local news consist mostly of local crime (hit and runs, arrests, wanted persons), and camera crew covering local fires and asking people at the gas stations what will they do now that the gasoline costs this much. The only time when there was some real life in these news was when there was a tornado - there were four hours of live coverage without ads.
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>Why watch TV? TV, radio, papers - are all just fillers showing whatever they think is best to grab majority's attention so they don't wander away for the next block of ads. Just like anybody else, they don't do their job, they do what they're paid to do, which is selling ads.
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>On the webs, there is, at least, the ad blocker.

You say 20% ...but of that only 3% of that is useful. There is a demand for "non stupid tv".