Resurrecting Television News
Viewership of the network news broadcasts, both local and national/world, has been significantly decreasing over the years.
Possible Reasons Why
Many reasons have been given for this slow demise.
- A popular opinion is that the news is biased, generally with a liberal slant, and hence does not provide the full picture of any given story.
- Others believe that the news is all too often negative in content. The positive stories are hardly ever addressed.
- In recent times, even talk show host, Jay Leno, was being blamed for poor viewership. Now that's getting desperate.
But, they could be able to save themselves from this apparently inevitable sad fate.
A Possible Solution
How? An idea was mentioned by someone just the other day, perhaps in jest, but nonetheless it may have merit.
Implement into the news broadcast a laugh soundtrack. Imagine this:
- Iran's Ahmadinejad declares that his country is not implementing a nuclear weapons system and will let Russia refine its uranium for power plant purposes.
- (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
- President Barack Obama declares jobs bill a bigger success than cash for clunkers program.
- (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
- Two murders were committed on the upper east side this morning, but that leaves the murder total at 3 less than last year at this time.
- (ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
- For tomorrow's weather we can look for a clear sky, temperatures in the mid 70s, low humidity, and a mild wind.
- (ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)
- In sports, the Boston Red Sox complete a 4 game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles.
- (ha, ha, . . . That's not funny.)
What do you think? It's been a main part of many a long running situational comedy. Couldn't it work here too.
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