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Journalism is Dead

Discussion pertaining to Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Battle Creek, Big Rapids, and Michiana
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Jay2ThePee
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Journalism is Dead

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https://www.fox17online.com/news/former ... er-reports

By: Kellen Voss
Posted 8:48 AM, Oct 23, 2025 and last updated 6:10 PM, Oct 23, 2025
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The feds are alleging that Billups was used to attract people to play in rigged poker games, encouraging 'fish' to play in high-profile games with the allure of playing with celebrities like Billups. Ones the games started, the organizers allegedly used X-Ray machines built into tables to read face-down cards, contact lenses/glasses that read pre-marked cards, secreat cameras in card trays and secret shuffling machines.
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Scripps is all about doing news on the cheap. The anchorless community news format was Exhibit A. The lack of proofreading is Exhibit B.
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It’s not just Scripps. All of the TV stations are like this now, same goes for the newspapers.
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Heres our Edmore neighborhood reporter to tell us about The Methodist church popcorn festival, Then we turn to our Hopkins neighborhood reporter to tell us all about the baptist church car show.
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Don't forget about the local news stories who's hard hitting investigation starts with a Facebook post....
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A story on Fox17 (Julie Dunmire, your local Kalamazoo area reporter!) this morning was about a high school football player that signed to attend University of Minnesota...

That's some hard-hitting, breaking news right there!!
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A local human interest story, not journalism but not a bad story to do.
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Agreed, especially if we're talking the morning newscast.
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MWmetalhead wrote: Mon Oct 27, 2025 12:54 pm Agreed, especially if we're talking the morning newscast.
The problem is, since this is Fox17 we're talking about here, is that everyone will be subjected to seeing that story for the next seven or so days, and multiple times on the weekend "newscast" that they have now... There must be something more pertinent to the majority of public viewers!

Air it once / twice? Sure.
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