Do you like round table and multi-person panel shows? I don’t watch news but I see clips on social media and I’m curious who enjoys that format and why.
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Our news channels are all talk. They should be mostly hard news reporting. We're offered panel shows because they're cheap to produce. Sending real reporters into the field to gather news costs money.
It depends if you have real experts or just talking heads with opposing views trying to out smart each other with misdirection and veiled insults. Stephanie Ruhle's Friday Night Cap is usually good. Most CNN panel just suck.
Some more than others I like diversified opinions but not yelling matches or condescending people who roll their eyes or talk over other panelist. Scott Jennings is the worst offender I’m not sure why they bother having him on
I think it has entertainment value but, I am much more wary of the clips that portray the owning of one another. However cathartic, it does not bring out the best. Long form is more helpful. IMO
It really depends on the persons participating. I don’t really care for the pandering-to-all-sides-panels as often seen on cnn. It’s as if a geologists conference need to invite flatearthers to their panel to avoid any appearance of bias.
I watch such shows on MSNBC where panels include former or current Republicans who are anti-Trump and have stood to him. Different opinions can be interesting. Tossing out the Constitution is not.
🙋♀️ if done respectfully and equal time is given and the moderators are good at fact checking, then yes, it can be done. (Not CNN though 🚫) i like Stephanie Ruhle's method, but she doesnt usually have opposing sides, just left-leaning.
Not at all. I stopped watching CNN a long time ago (for several reasons), but I cringe when I see clips of guests talking over one another. One or two people at a time is the way to go.
Newswise? No; it just allows talking heads to ‘both sides’ everything; even when morally, there shouldn’t be another ‘side’.
That’s exactly what helped us all get to how/where we are.
Personally, I'd like less opinion and more objective, fact-based news. And I'd like to hear about what is going on in the nation and world beyond the select news story cycles most media beat to death. Tired of what we are routinely "fed"... I've been tuning out on cable news programs, in particular.
No. I prefer long form interviews with an informed interviewer who has done research about the interviewee, asking pertinent questions, listening to responses and the asking probing follow-up questions. Don’t move on from a question until it has been answered. The rest is noise.
It's weird because I like panels in person, at academic conferences and comics conventions and all kinds of things, but panel TV, there's something about them thinking about camera angles or the viewers or something, I don't know, but it doesn't work for me, The View or Meet the Press or anything.
Like the thing where people talk at/over each other instead of with each other, maybe it's just that actual conferences pay more attention to best moderation practices or heck, the participants just don't hate each other as much. I can't remember seeing the TV-grade showboating stuff in person.
That's true no matter the disparities in status and social skill levels and sheer experience or influence; I remember a panel with Ray Bradbury and Forrest Ackerman and several people who were not nearly as famous or important or, you know, the founding gods of the genre, and they *all* did well.
I like when there's a roundtable with different experiences and a moderator. I think those are more likely to have well balanced perspectives. I want to have all information available for good decision making.
The McLaughlin group was fantastic years ago. Look up that format. They were informed republicans and democrats. 4 sitting across like living room style. Not just spouting opinions. We need something like that. I’m older and our News has gone to shit. It is for profit and it is very sad.
NO, not at all. It’s one step up from a stitch & bitch! 🤣
I lost interest in MSM opinion based format a long time ago. Im here for the facts.. thats it!
No, because all they do is holler over each other and you end up comprehending absolutely NOTHING. Tho I love that Leigh McGowan is on CNN. Can’t figure out what took em so long to call her up.
I'm okay with it. So long as there is no talking over people, haranguing guests, and bloviating (let's see...who are we talking about?). I like The Weekend with Steele, Menendez, and Sanders (sometimes Sanders is just too much). But they're more "real" than Morning Joe, which has gotten tedious.
To take a break from the past 2 months of political punditry, I'll watch Hollywood Reporter's round table discussions with directors, comedians, actors, etc. Insight, laughs, no Scott Jennings.
I quit watching CNN, they would have four different people on saying four different things and rarely stepping in to fact check. Wonder why America so screwed up.
Talking heads. With top quality video phones literally EVERYWHERE, real news casts should be offered on the cable news networks. Nobody watches talking heads on hi-def television (Fox does hypnotize the public with flashing graphics, but people are getting bored with that).
I’m not a fan of the argumentative round tables. I prefer how Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow & Nicolle Wallace do their shows. Lawrence & Nicolle guests don’t speak over one another & Rachel just has one guest at a time.
My favorite show is Nicolle Wallace. I can't watch it right now because I'm still in shock. And cannot stand the talk of, "self-reflect to Democrats and get those racist to vote for you talk."
Often they're just shout panels rehashing whatever talking point has been selected by the producers to push real news aside.
Apostrophe-gate with Biden's "garbage" quote kept dozens of "senior political consultants" talking over each other for 48+ hours.
No. It's one of the reasons misinformation has gotten out of control because the messaging is all over the place and more focused on conflict/yelling with "gotchas" rather than fostering a constructive dialogue aimed at effectively providing the public w/clear, unbiased, & accurate information
I sure don't. It seems like a money-saving move one of the networks made some time ago and the rest followed. I wish they would go back to just the facts with a monotone. The opinion shows are annoying.
Loathe them. Political point scoring, arguing over each other, lack of facts being checked, occasionally poisonous guests who won't let anyone else get a point across. Ughh
Do not like the panels. It might as well be a coffee clutch. At least here we have many voices from people from various walks of life, with various areas of expertise, or just folks wanting to express themselves and be part of the conversation. Certainly is more relevant.
I miss the days of hear the news make up your own minds
A lot of these panels that they put together are either all screaming into vacuums or when they get some of these Republicans on nobody really pushes back on them!
If you mean do I want to sit around & watch 4 MSM personalities creme themselves over trump destroying our country so they can get clicks, then I'm out
Really depends on the moderator & the quality/mix of guests. Washington Week on PBS with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg is very good. @chrislhayes.bsky.social does an excellent job with panels, when he has that format on his show.
I don't like that format because there's usually too much cross-talking and no one gets enough time to make a full argument. That makes it more fluff than actual content, imo. It's not entertaining either, so I'm not sure what the point is.
They are useless. Yesterday people on such a panel on MSNBC were laughing at Matt Gaetz and his rape/child trafficking ways like it was a hilarious joke. Get rid of these shows. l stopped watching them after the first Trump administration.
At this point I feel like some of them are just trying to stay relevant. Those shows are like here or X they themselves only follow or respond to their Little circle..but want lots of followers..just sorta over all the "do me a favor and follow" people.
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That’s exactly what helped us all get to how/where we are.
Comedy shows? Absolutely 😉
Just sayin 💅😖✊🏻
Otherwise it as annoying as an elementary school lunch room.
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It's not that.
And for the love of sanity, filling the 24/7/365 newsfeed can be done to greater efficacy.
It's like 12 hours of 3 Things We Hate About Trump and 3 Whataboutisms about the Democrats, you know, for fair & balanced BS. 🙄
I lost interest in MSM opinion based format a long time ago. Im here for the facts.. thats it!
We need unbiased news not a panel of opinions
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/question-everything
Apostrophe-gate with Biden's "garbage" quote kept dozens of "senior political consultants" talking over each other for 48+ hours.
I'd like the news to just report the news. I don't give a shit about "hot takes" by Scott Jennings.
A lot of these panels that they put together are either all screaming into vacuums or when they get some of these Republicans on nobody really pushes back on them!
If you mean do I want to sit around & watch 4 MSM personalities creme themselves over trump destroying our country so they can get clicks, then I'm out
One time she had several attorneys on at the same time because she’s not a lawyer & it was a legal issue.
Otherwise, it’s her & one other person. That’s the best news format.