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tlrobinson on Dec 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball...

TV news has more in common with entertainment than journalism.

You could probably get the same amount of content from reading news story summaries for 5 minutes as you get from an hour of local TV news.

wanorris on Dec 7, 2011 [–]

And depending on where you got your summaries from, the accuracy would likely be much, much higher.

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