The TV News Reports but Never Follows Up

Have you noticed that the TV news media report the news, but never follow it up, never offer advice or lessons to learn from what happened?

Example:

TV news media report deaths and injuries from traffic accidents. But they don't report Why it happened, and How we can avoid the same tragedy.

Why?

If it's in the national interest to report a harm, is it not even more important for the national interest to learn why the harm happened, so we can avoid the harm ourselves?

Who is responsible for following up on things? The Government? The Media?

Who cares?

If you decide to report something and decide not to follow it up, then you are responsible for the omission.

Reporting something and not analysing it for the benefit of those reported to is lazy and irresponsible. The true reason for the report becomes evident: to get ratings to sell their TV time to advertisers. The TV news media prove they have no interest in public safety, public awareness by merely reporting shocking events. They seek only to sell their product, to make money. This is disgusting behaviour.

The TV news is conveyed to us in the same format; decades of the exact same method. The TV news media has not progressed or developed its service one iota since it began decades ago.

The leading and lagging national economic indicators are merely displayed as numbers in the finance section. But no media has ever explained these indicators, why they should mean something to all of us - not just rich investors or political actors.

Gold and oil prices are displayed to the nation, but why they are displayed is never explained and remains a mystery to most watching. What do these figures mean or matter? No one explains.

Stock prices are displayed, and never explained. So why display them?

Employment figures are displayed, but the figures are not enumerated into their categories: part-time, casual and temporary employment figures. Why not?

It makes a difference in viewing employment figures whether they are mostly full-time ongoing jobs or merely casual or part-time (2 hours a week?) jobs. The differences are immense. But no enumeration is forthcoming.

Why not?

What most people want to know day to day is how are we all doing? How are others doing? How does this news affect me? The Media choses not to tell us.

We clearly have a gap of need in society and the need for intelligent analysed information. Since the Media and the Government have no interest to fill this information gap, someone needs to step up and fill it.