Name: Jesse Ventura on the Downfall of the American Media
Uploaded: 2022-03-28T17:03:33.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jesse Ventura on the Downfall of the American Media' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jesse Ventura on the Downfall of the American Media' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-28. Transcript available.

I feel like the news made things very confusing the news started becoming like
not information and a lot of people got extremely scared and didn't know who to
believe anymore well here you go you want the answer to the news yeah Jesse
has it yeah I'd like a you know I wouldn't mind a dose of it man because
that's where I feel like a lot of bad information started downfall of the news
came with the show 60 minutes now you guys are all gonna sit and know I like
how
could you 60 minutes that's an award-winning investigative reporting
show which it is and it's a great show it was a great show still is probably a
great show but 60 minutes was the downfall of the American media why is that
when
they started editorializing it prior to 60 minutes all the news lost money and
they
they made up for it in the entertainment division and that was a standard rule
the
news is to educate the news is to do this the news don't make money it's to
inform
along came the show 60 minutes it shot to number one in the ratings the bean
counters
their eyes got big and they went you mean we can make money off the news yeah
that's what 60 minutes
caused making profit off the news then it became about ratings rather than
informing now the news is
nothing but entertainment right so it's there to get ratings points it's there
to make money
for advertisers yeah we're in the days of walter cronkite back when i was
younger than you the news
lost money you want the show that was so ahead of its time the movie that it's
scary today for me to
watch it watch the show network yeah with faye dunaway uh william holden i've
seen that it's
good and peter finch won the academy award for playing howard beale because he
just got so real
and that's and it changed everything no that's where it became entertainment
remember they brought
faye dunaway in from entertainment yes to get the ratings the new producer this
was done before it
ever happened to the news yeah they call up to her desk and she's like no let
him go let him go
they knew 60 minutes it changed it yeah so that movie whoever wrote the script
or whatever can you
was looking into the future and had their thumb right on the button wow because
that's what
our media or our news has turned into the movie network so then but it's all
about ratings points
now guys it ain't about making you smarter or giving you information it's about
titillate look at right
now oh what's the big news out there right now another missing white girl yeah
now if that girl
was black you think there'd be all that front page stories every night if it
was a black black people
don't go hiking really though but may probably not maybe not you know maybe not
black girls disappear
every day yeah and you don't see though where they isolate every all people
disappear every day
probably but why is it that they pick out the cute right there's this little
looking little
white girl distress yeah yeah the cute little and don't get me wrong it's a
tragedy it's horrifying
whatever happened to her don't get me wrong on that no totally i feel you i'm
just thinking the media's
coverage of it it's okay when i was going to do the show for msnbc everything
comes down from on high
yeah they tell you what they're like hannity and these guys they get told what
to talk about
oh totally yeah you know i fought them you know what they sent me every day lacy
peterson what and
i said that's a tragedy but there's 10 000 murders a year why is this one
exceptional and why should
people in minnesota or in the east coast care about a murder that took place
out in california
yeah yes we feel sad lacy was murdered like i feel sad that anybody else gets
murdered but why would
die on a national tv show give five minutes of the show's time covering a
murder that affects
that when you have 10 000 of them a year yeah hope you enjoyed that video and
you can watch another
and you can watch this one you can watch this one different options different
choices some guy
just brings you one option not this guy two options watch one this one or this
one
Thank you.