"Feeding The Beast" gave me a whole new perspective on media and all the work that is put into daily newspapers and newscasts. After finishing the video, I was under the impression that the beast was the public, and it was the media sources job to "feed" them the news. While reading a newspaper or watching the news on TV, one doesn't realize the effort put forth to get you the news your viewing. All we do is notice maybe a few writers on a paper or 2 anchors on a newscast. What you don't see is what is going on behind the scenes.
News is in such high demand that suppliers work very hard and use a bigger crew to make us happy. Most people don't give enough respect because they would be shocked when they knew how many people worked for the news source. There are editors, managers, reporters, and so on. And for each field, there could be dozens of workers. So Feeding The Beast is about making the viewers happy. We are very critical of news sources and easily switch if we are not happy with the news. Meanwhile, they are busting their butts to get as many news sources as possible to please us. My respect went up for these hard workers, for I had no idea this was troubles they were going through just to keep us entertained.
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