To Make a Long Story Short…
One hundred and forty two seconds…
That is the average length of a cable news story. Anyone who has been directly involved in an event that holds enough human interest to make the news knows that you can’t comprehensively show one side of a story in two minutes let alone all sides.
Journalism.org is a great resource for information about the television news medium. Check out this graph showing the results of an annual survey about believability.
