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Michael DePalma Ms. Patient English 9-5 3 December 2013 American News Every day millions of Americans across the country watch, listen, and read the news. Many rely on its information presented to them as the truth and not an opinion or lies. This is how people can tell what is going on in the world around them. Sometimes the news is reliable and helpful and sometimes it’s just complete lies. This is not just the weather man got the forecast wrong or the sportscaster predicted wrong for the big game, these are real stories being twisted and mangled from the truth. American news is biased in order to gain higher viewership. News wasn’t of course always on television; but, it has been since television programs were first aired. â€Å"Unlike the 1941 ambitious twice-daily newscast schedule, CBS had more modest expectations for the station in 1944 and only offered one night of live programming a week, doubled to two at the end of the first month. The CBS-TV 15-minute newscast began each night of live programming on the station For the next 4 years, CBS would offer anywhere from two to four newscasts a week, finally settling on a daily format in May 1948. (Tuggle) Much like the audience, CBS’s television department was small in 1944, with the network concentrating most of its resources on the popular and powerful radio side of broadcasting (Conway).† Over time, more and more channels would become news outlets after CBS, the four major networks NBC,ABC, Fox and local channels all jumped in the race to broadcast the news faster than their competitors all in the essence to gain viewership(Conway). Americans get their news from all of the major networks and popular shows such as Today, Good Morning America, and of course local dail... ...ost local TV news programs face heavy competition – typically several shows offering the same product in the same time slots in the same medium – most newspapers have it much easier. My impression, is that most newspapers produce the highest quality journalism they can under the resource constraints they face.The large majority of American newspapers have enjoyed monopolies in their local markets for decades. But are now becoming less and less popular with the internet allowing that information to be free (Zaller). News in America is something that everyone watches to keep informed on the events of that day. From time to time the networks or papers that tell us what happened isn’t always trusted or true, but it is what we have to go on. At the time the news is being presented there no way an average American can fact check it all so all they can do is sit and watch.