Public Disheartened With Glossy News, Call For Back To Basics Approach

The public call for ‘no holes barred’ news is becoming louder every day. Celebrity gossip now makes the headlines of the most serious news channels and 24 hour new stations increase the amount of speculation, rather than news, that is reported.

Thisismereporting.com founder Leanne McMahon states “The feedback I’m getting is that people have become quite disillusioned with a lot of news today. It’s dumbed down and spoon fed to us. They want to hear about the war in Iraq from the guy who risks his life to go to the market for food every day. Rather than 20 minutes on one fleshed out news story, they’d rather have a few small pieces on world news, something which is usually neglected by the mainstream stations.”

People’s opinions of these events is also something lacking from today’s news.

“I can see from the way the site is growing that people have a lot to say, they want themselves heard, they want to ask questions.” McMahon said.

Thisismereporting.com is a website that brings news reporting back to the people.