Posted on 12/13/2008 3:56:45 PM PST by NorthShoreGibby
The march of technology and the shrinking economy are beginning to take a toll on the traditional means of television news-gathering: the TV news crew.
Under a new agreement reached this week with its labor unions, WUSA, Channel 9, will become the first station in Washington to replace its crews with one-person "multimedia journalists" who will shoot and edit news stories single-handedly.
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wow.. the news market fixing itself! no News Media Czar! no billion dollar bailout, or subsidies to keep 2-person news!
Hmmmmm...maybe Unions aren't such bad things after all. They seem to be a parasite that sucks the life blood out its' host and, thereby, insures the death of both.
I’m shocked, shocked the Democrats haven’t proposed an MSM bail out. It shouldn’t cost more than $700 billion or so.
How many people does it take to sit by the fax machine?
And it has added so much to social stability in places like Cuba. No reporter is as responsible as one who draws his livelihood from the public purse.
Seriously, I expect the Democrats to force Rush Limbaugh and his ilk to bail out the MSM. It will be called The Fairness Doctrine.
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