“You can’t be ‘The Most Trusted Name in News’ and run lead stories on tattooed fish or musical condoms. The problem is if you get rid of those stories, web traffic drops and ratings go down.
I personally would like to see a distinct split between hard news and crap. Maybe warn everyone before the newscast that the next half an hour will be about senior citizens posing nude for calendars to raise money for charity, the latest thing Paris Hilton said, or coverage of thousand dollar hamburgers being sold at New York restaurants. That might actually raise ratings and allow people who are interested in real news to save some time.”
—Drew Curtis, the author of “It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News,” in an interview with Public Eye.
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