entertainment on news!

Hi dear, Yes, as I said earlier, the competition is the hero here in this field. Every channel has to come with something new. I don't know what is in your country's level. But here in India, the channels have a tough competition. Everyone is in a run for more and more, variety of programs, innovation of new techniques and technologies. They want more viewers. Tempting and attractive programs are on the levels. Because of this reason, some programs are very dangerous and crucial. For, we have a program called "Anything will do for entertainment" - This is so dangerous and tough jobs. Only highly trained people can do it. For those who are performing the show is a normally one. But on looking the show, we will get afraid of. These all are to attract more viewers only. Of course, there are good and worth programs also. Only thing what I mean to say is, we should cut short the unwanted programs and worthless programs. It is their work to show with anything. As an intelligent customer, we should value which all the program we needed to watch and do not go for all what they are showing. The quality of the shows and programs have increased. But the some of the live programs are so typical (music/dance) and are to be appreciated to the participants. Regards, Thank-s

I think this is kind of revolution that the news media should improve. By adding entertainment value along with the information is a good idea where you can also consider the entertainment news as the part of the news. This will not affect their social responsibilities if they take measure on what kind of entertainment news that they should add in.

that depends on the kind of entertainment they make. Going back to the basics of the news, it is comprised of facts. As long as those facts are facts and not exaggerated or underplayed (the word escapes me right now), it is still news. For me, i can take any form of facts , whether it be in the form of entertainment of not. Maybe the reason they are doing so is that, to be honest, news reported in the very old-fashioned and traditional way is pretty boring. That is why they are injecting a new way of making it interesting.

you know now a days i when there is no big news many news channels just keeep giving updates on some silly things that you won`t even like to watch..... Its all to generate thir income.

Adding in random bits of entertainment happenings into a legitimate newscast does in fact add to a broadcast's viewer-ship, but I feel that it cheapens it. Now for local news, I don't feel that it makes much difference as they always cater to the common low attention span viewer(at least in my area). In my opinion, entertainment news is a bottom of the barrel form of the media that caters to the interests of those that won't devote time to understanding or taking an educated stance on current issues. But at the same time, skewed newscasts such as Fox News kill the integrity of the broadcast journalism field. I'm all for hearing opinions that differ from my own, but I need fair & balanced reporting - or at least an equal opportunity for both sides. CNN, AP, & BBC are all pretty fair & balanced. While I firmly stand against reading it or joining in on it, I feel that social networking Facebook & Twitter do serve an important part in the news as they do give an easily accessible voice of the public to broadcasts to use. I got a little off topic, but yeah - including random bits of entertainment news/gossip/etc kills a broadcast's integrity.