The News by Brendan S Repeating the same "stories" -- or what are called "stories" -- having studied in TV and also advertising classes, when something is "written for television" it is not really writing, it is simply what is known as "copy" and is meant for television only -- since it is not "real writing" (where we truly learn information) it is essentially just verbosity. The people who produce the news are oftentimes more just doing it as a means to entertain and put on a show, with no interest in what is actually interesting to their audience, but only publishing and broadcasting "stories" that "they and their advertisers" are interested in. From FOX News to other stations like ABC, the news is more desirous towards entertaining than educating us, and this is our downfall. The world treated like a coliseum is not news. I even know that some of the corruption in news stations runs so deep they use special frequencies on their stations programming (for their own purposes) as well as employ security experts to attack other stations. The news is simply boring, unintersting, bullshit drivel coming out of the mouths of robotic-looking people who are not writers, who are not teachers, and who are nothing more than TV "persona's" paid to share the information they share. The meaninglessness of this runs hand-in-hand with the same mind-numbing scenes from films forced on the public in movies like 1984, and I agree that no station is worth watching anymore. BLS