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TV NEWS MANAGERS AND MANAGEMENT
The managers are the ventriloquists and their highly touted, well paid news anchors (the reporters or "talking heads" sitting behind the desks in the TV studios) are the smoothe, fast talking puppets who gush the words strung together by the hired help, the news writers and producers. So much "hangs on" what things look like in TV news that too often they come up short on substance.
Crime and violence may be portrayed, not always as unacceptable, but as a potential solution to problems or as a means to an end. TV may not cause violence but it may seem to tend to justify it. Simply put, the reality of theTV news business is that it is a real money maker for the elite in the business who get to enjoy its perks and privileges. This is about as substantive as TV news gets day to day.
The lead TV news anchors seen in the larger cities and on national TV news networks may not always write much of what they say on the air but they are the "hired guns" bought and paid for by the TV news management to look good while reading convincingly well out loud off a camera teleprompter.
The "on air" TV news anchors in the studio may not know much about what they read on the air every day since everything they read is printed out for them on the camera's teleprompter so it looks like they are talking to you, the audience, when, in reality, they are only reading the words they are speaking so it "looks like" they have what they say memorized when nothing is further from the truth. In fact, if you look closely you can oftentimes see their eyes moving from right to left as they "read" the news to you.
At the national TV network news level, and in other large cities, the lead TV news anchors may even mark their camera teleprompter scripts to know when to look down at their script on their desk so it "looks like" they are referring to their script to determine what to recite to you next in the news, but, of course, this is only a cosmetic move to make you, the audience, feel the news anchors have the news memorized when they absolutely NEVER have!
Right before the news "show" goes on the air "live" some of the behind the scenes news people may shout out, "It's showtime!" Remember, TV news in reality is "showbiz", or "playtime" for adults, that TV news managers want you to think is actually reality when it is only reality as they see it and not necessarily what reality is! In other words, learn to think for yourself and do not put a lot of faith in what you hear or see on local and national TV news shows. Otherwise, the TV news managers can control your mind and shape your values.
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