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Hobbit
03-05-2007, 01:15 PM
Sensationalist headlines have become the norm and 'not news' outnumbers actual news items. Why? Because it gets better ratings. Apparantly, people who have time to watch TV don't care that much about actual news. Drew Curtis, creator of the famous 'not news' site, fark.com, weighs in on why professional news services resemble his web site more and more every day.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0305/p09s01-coop.html

Gaffer
03-05-2007, 01:48 PM
I've been saying this for ages.

The news only covers sensationalism. You can only find real news on the internet.