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Originally Posted by mburbank
There are a number of reasons.
they're easy to cover.
They're simple to understand. (Try comparing runaway bride to Iran/contra or the Tyco trial)
They generate zero political pressure...
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The average viewer, when offered a choice between something important but complex and something irrelevant but highly digestible, makes the obvious choice. At one time, the press was intended to help people keep tabs on big important things that weren't so obvious... hidden even...
Isn't that why we enshrined freedom of the press in the Constitution?
I think rather than wonder why the media has taken to serving the LCD viewer while abandoning it's intended mission we should be worried about what's being allowed to happen while the press is asleep at the wheel, blitz-covering random minutia.
But that's just me.