Originally published February 23 2006
Broadcaster says serious news deserves more attention
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In a recent speech, former CNN broadcaster Aaron Brown said important news in this country -- such as news on the war in Iraq -- is not getting enough attention, saying it is the responsibility of the media and of the viewer to demand more serious news coverage.
Jeffrey Langlois (enlarge photo) Former CNN 'NewsNight' anchor Aaron Brown said important issues, such as the war in Iraq, are being clouded over by 'mud-wrestling' that skirts substance.
"Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news," said Aaron Brown, whose four-year period as anchor of CNN's NewsNight ended in November, when network executives gave his job to Anderson Cooper in a bid to push the show's ratings closer to front-runner Fox News.
When NewsNight spent four hours covering the arrest of actor Robert Blake for the murder of his wife, Brown received thousands of e-mails criticizing the amount of time the show spent on the story.
Nevertheless, that show, which aired in April 2002, received the highest ratings of any program since NewsNight's coverage of the November 2001 crash of American Airlines flight 587.
"You sit there with your remote control and vote."
With the departure from the screen of the "titans" --- Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather --- who "resisted the temptations of their bosses to go for the ratings grab, it will be years before an anchorman or anchorwoman will have the clout to fight these battles," he said.
He's covered everything from the Columbine High School murders to the aftermath of the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
But viewers may remember best his on-the-spot coverage of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
E-mail and talk radio appear to have given people the license to say anything, regardless of how cruel or false it may be, he said.
Journalists have fallen short in presenting important news in ways that allow viewers to see how it matters in their lives.
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