Ever Notice How "Hard News" Takes The Weekend Off?

[stopbush]

Why is it that the hard news stories always seem to happen during the M-F workweek? Could it be that weekends are reserved for selling us shit during sporting events, so the hard news has to wait for the workweek to make an appearance?

Even the 24/7 cable "news" networks plan their weekend schedules way in advance and litter them with all kinds of pre-fab, quasi-news stories about prisons and celebrities. Sure, a hard news story breaks in once in a while, but it's never so big a story that the regular programming is shut down.

Is there some UN agreement that we all signed that makes the weekends off limits to hard news? Am I being paranoid? ;)

[alsame]

1. Hey, this morning John King on CNN asked David Axelrod if

President Obama was planning to read Palin's book. What's more important than that? :sarcasm:

[C_Lawyer09]

2. Never thought about what you mention

That is a damn good point. Even if you are being paranoid, it's something to consider. Sometimes it's fun to read the really paranoid stuff, the truth is often lost somewhere in the middle, as they say... Whomever they is! Good post buddy!

[amandabeech]

3. It's the weekend in many parts of the world, and folks take care of personal business

and reconnect with their families. Congress normally isn't in session and the stock markets are closed which eliminates two big sources of news here in the U.S.

Most are neither making news nor consuming it.

Lots of good, although not breaking stories, show up in the Sunday papers.

The talking heads dominate broadcast TV.

CNN rolls out two international news programs on Sunday afternoon: Zakaria at 1:00 and Amanpour at 2:00.

[lxlxlxl]

4. It takes most of the week off honestly...

the problem is the distinction between real news and television news, which mainly runs off of 24 hour operations where journalists are completely running by the seat of their pants and repeating the 'easiest to repeat' story throughout the day.

what sort of stories actually are 'broken' on tv news? the best reporting is still coming from the print research people.

[lxlxlxl]

5. i did always wonder why the political shows happen when so many people are at church

sunday morning for most of the country is not for watching political news shows, but they are always programmed there...why? im not really sure.

[MerryBlooms]

6. It's been that way for years now

MSNBC doesn't even run news most of the weekend, its line up is mostly 'true crime' type of shows.
Pathetic

Talk radio mostly runs shows from the previous week, or fluff type of shows.

Apparently there is no news on the weekends we need to know about until Monday.

[stopbush]

7. The flip side are the marginal news stories occurring M-F that get

hyped to the level of a WTC attack.

[MerryBlooms]

8. Sad state of affairs

n/t