Lionel Nation - Breaking News Is Broken — You’re Being Played Mercilessly
Aired: 2023-05-27
Duration: 13:49


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[00:01:30]  I have always despised news.
[00:01:36]  News programming.
[00:01:38]  News cliched, hoary, stupid, mindless news.
[00:01:46]  The usual stuff.
[00:01:48]  The Ted Baxter news.
[00:01:51]  Ron Burgundy news.
[00:01:55]  These corny, anachronistic, absolutely pathetic reenactments of not news, but propaganda.
[00:02:11]  Staying within the lane.
[00:02:13]  Never being controversial.
[00:02:15]  Never being conspiratorial.
[00:02:17]  And never being, oh what's the word, oh yes, interesting, relevant.
[00:02:21]  I will explain that to you in great detail.
[00:02:25]  I will go through it at levels you never thought even humanly possible.
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[00:04:10]  Now, I don't know when news got to be stupid, but there are three people in my life that I have always Consider to be almost heroes of sorts.
[00:04:23]  Believe it or not.
[00:04:24]  Heroes!
[00:04:26]  And they're not real.
[00:04:29]  One, of course, is Howard Beale.
[00:04:30]  Howard Beale is that guy that everybody wants to be on TV.
[00:04:35]  Everybody wants to be, listen to me, I'm mad as hell.
[00:04:39]  This voice of truth.
[00:04:42]  Everybody wants to be it, but can't.
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[00:04:47]  Barney Fife.
[00:04:50]  Important critical persona because it presaged RoboCop and the demented psycho rogue cop, if you will.

=== Ted Baxter's Legacy (08:48) ===

[00:05:06]  But it also did something else which is important.
[00:05:08]  It also said, it also showed that you could see kind of where things were going, where it was headed.
[00:05:16]  But number one, Ted Baxter.
[00:05:18]  Ted Baxter was so important because Ted Baxter came about 10 years prior to, don't hold me to it, prior to the retirement of Walter Cronkite.
[00:05:29]  Walter Cronkite was at the height, not height, but the height of his game at the time and nobody ever thought of making fun of an anchor.
[00:05:42]  Because they were considered to be godlike.
[00:05:44]  John Cameron Swayze and Murrow and Robert Trout and Richard C. Hodlett and Douglas Edwards and Eric Severi.
[00:05:53]  They go down the list.
[00:05:54]  These people, each of them, each of them were exemplars of gravitas, the likes of which nobody ever saw before.
[00:06:04]  And they were incredible.
[00:06:06]  And if you watch the break-in, If you will, they broke in during the assassination of JFK that day.
[00:06:14]  It was just, it was incredible.
[00:06:19]  And they had sets that were plywood and wood paneling and cigarettes and rolled up t-shirts.
[00:06:28]  And the delivery was so perfect, so poetic, so great, so wonderful.
[00:06:34]  I loved it.
[00:06:36]  And we don't see that today.
[00:06:37]  We don't see it.
[00:06:39]  We don't recognize it today.
[00:06:40]  It doesn't exist.
[00:06:41]  And I don't know why.
[00:06:43]  Because now it's cliché, breaking news, developing story.
[00:06:47]  It's schmaltz.
[00:06:48]  It's distortion.
[00:06:50]  It's fear.
[00:06:52]  It's never wanting to be...
[00:06:55]  Conspiratorial.
[00:06:56]  Never giving you the facts.
[00:06:57]  They're repeaters, not reporters.
[00:06:59]  Let me say that again.
[00:07:00]  Let me repeat that.
[00:07:01]  They're repeaters.
[00:07:03]  They repeat what the government says.
[00:07:05]  They repeat what the president says.
[00:07:06]  They repeat.
[00:07:07]  They don't report anything.
[00:07:09]  They don't delve into it.
[00:07:12]  In New York, in New York, whatever the event was, whether it was from...
[00:07:20]  John Lennon to 9-11 to anything.
[00:07:25]  You never heard anyone really say, is this all there is, to quote Peggy Lee?
[00:07:33]  Is there anything more to this story?
[00:07:35]  Is there anything about the story as evinced that might not necessarily make sense, that might not be spot on?
[00:07:45]  Is there anything about this story that we can go further?
[00:07:49]  When it came to 9-11 in particular, the level of stories, the depth, how it impacted, it would have been, you could have spent the rest of eternity breaking them down.
[00:08:05]  But no, they stuck.
[00:08:08]  It could have been eyewitness news from Des Moines with just a New York flavor.
[00:08:17]  Something happens.
[00:08:18]  It becomes homogenized.
[00:08:19]  It becomes corny.
[00:08:22]  It becomes, I don't know what the word is.
[00:08:25]  I don't know what happens.
[00:08:28]  I can't explain it.
[00:08:30]  People who have never really, who weren't raised in the John Cameron Twayze world, all of a sudden will stand there with their And they'll start nodding before they throw it to them.
[00:08:50]  And now live at the explosion site is Fox 5, and they start nodding.
[00:09:01]  That's right, Dave.
[00:09:02]  And they take on this Ted Baxter affectation.
[00:09:09]  They don't even realize it.
[00:09:11]  I don't understand it.
[00:09:15]  And right now, when they are at risk of losing everything, when citizens, civilian, alternative and foreign news platforms seek to rewrite, recapitulate, recapture,
[00:09:31]  reframe, re-address, re-present everything, when you've got people reporting with a cell phone camera from their bedroom, Doing a better job.
[00:09:47]  You would think instead of these people getting better and bolder and less cliche, no, they're doubling down.
[00:09:57]  That's the part I don't understand.
[00:09:59]  And I will never understand that.
[00:10:01]  I will never grasp that.
[00:10:02]  I will never see how and why they do that.
[00:10:06]  But let me tell you something.
[00:10:09]  And let me just warn you.
[00:10:11]  Not you, but to those individuals.
[00:10:14]  It's over.
[00:10:16]  What you're seeing now, what you're seeing in terms of two things.
[00:10:20]  People who are able to just take to a camera, give their own particular twist and turn and spin, and allowing immediate feedback from the audience as you're able to feedback immediately, whether in live stream or not.
[00:10:36]  Because in regular TV, in regular network program, they don't give a damn about you.
[00:10:41]  They wait until the overnights, maybe, or something.
[00:10:45]  But that's it.
[00:10:46]  I mean, they could not care less about you.
[00:10:50]  And they also believe that they're somehow stars.
[00:10:55]  I've seen this firsthand.
[00:10:57]  I know what I'm talking about.
[00:10:59]  They think...
[00:11:03]  They're Rula Lenska.
[00:11:04]  Listen to me.
[00:11:05]  I'm dating myself.
[00:11:05]  They think they're famous or sexy or hot, of course, as they're spackled and Botoxed and made up and airbrushed and they're cliched and corny.
[00:11:23]  They actually still have weather.
[00:11:26]  Weather on local news.
[00:11:28]  Weather.
[00:11:28]  Who in the hell waits for the weather at 6 o 'clock?
[00:11:33]  I've got nothing but weather.
[00:11:35]  It's old.
[00:11:36]  It's hoary.
[00:11:37]  It's concretized.
[00:11:40]  It's historic.
[00:11:43]  I mean, it's just people sitting on the couch.
[00:11:48]  We're going to bring you the news.
[00:11:50]  At 6 o 'clock, do you realize we have been immersed?
[00:11:56]  All day.
[00:11:58]  We have alerts to every little thing that happens.
[00:12:04]  So detached are these people.
[00:12:06]  So untethered.
[00:12:10]  They still think it's 1953.
[00:12:12]  In fact, when you watch local news in particular, this is a 70-year-old format that hasn't changed.
[00:12:18]  70 years.
[00:12:19]  This is from the 50s.
[00:12:21]  Look at what they're doing.
[00:12:22]  New sports weather.
[00:12:24]  The weather guy used to be the kind of roly-poly kind of a jokester or whatever it is.
[00:12:29]  The sports guy.
[00:12:31]  Watch Mary Tyler Moore.
[00:12:34]  WJN News.
[00:12:35]  By the way, what?
[00:12:36]  KRP was the perfect radio station.
[00:12:39]  That was it.
[00:12:41]  So, let me just say something.
[00:12:44]  Rest in peace.
[00:12:46]  Local, conventional, archaic, prototypical, archetypal news program.
[00:12:52]  Rest in peace.
[00:12:53]  Thanks for what you did, but it's over.
[00:12:56]  It's done.
[00:12:57]  And you never caught on.
[00:12:59]  You just figured, nah, this is just a fad.
[00:13:03]  Nah, it's like radio friends of mine.
[00:13:06]  That's just podcasting.
[00:13:07]  They're not professionals.
[00:13:09]  They're actually arguing, the radio folks, whether there should be AM radio in new cars.
[00:13:15]  AM radio!
[00:13:16]  What's wrong with shortwave?
[00:13:18]  What about that?
[00:13:18]  How about a crystal set?
[00:13:20]  Maybe we can have a baby monitor, too.
[00:13:22]  Every form of communication that is equally as archaic and outmoded in any event.
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