Can't imagine why.
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Can’t remember when I last watched a newscast of any kind. Got tired of the cookie-cutter bimboy-bimbo combo for the news, followed by a dippy sports idiot, and then the standard weather guy/girl (probably the only one of the troupe that actually had any kind of a good education).
“Bailout” prep work.
Look for this to morph into calls for government subsidies (extracted from our wallets) to NPRify the local TV news.
Can't imagine why.
Long overdue. A hairdo and the appearance of “gravitas” is no substitute for good reporting.
Most people are turned off by socialist propaganda 24x7.
How so? The local Democrat Party apparatchik will still be happy to send you their/your daily talking points.
There is no reason a talking head, teleprompter reader should be making several million.
Y'know, abb?
I get it, I do.
But in the example used here couldn't the dislocation also have been due to an aging old goat who overstayed his welcome by 30 years, too?
I mean the demographic in LA has to be largely Hispanic, *enlightened* albeit guilty left-wing whites, and let us not forget the Royce Da 5'9"-ish crowd, all probably under 25.
I use 25 & under deliberately because really, WTH could watch the tabloid crap "news" has morphed into anymore, except the near brain-dead and the official brain-dead?
No wonder he wound-up back in Buffalo.
Sweet Jesus WTH wants to go there? While it's career purgatory, a stop before virtual hell?
It's also probably an aging demo, possibly majority Caucasian blah blah who'll *connect* with a Hollyweird libtard.
I really have to wonder about the conclusions being attributed to the shift. Hailing a symptom without regard to the disease means they're really dead since there's simply no hope of 'em fixing that which is killing 'em.
It that respect it is *indeed* similar to the Rag industry. LOL
"If you think local TV news is irrelevant and has long sacrificed real news coverage for flash and trash, just wait until stations have no money to even pretend they're covering the important stuff."
BWWWWWWHAAAAAAA!!
Hey, is the weasel threatening us? LOL!
*How*, pray tell could one possibly make news casts any worse than they already are? It ain't possible. Not unless they prop up cheaply painted mannequins to read or running Ginsu infomercials during normal news cast hours.
Methinks the slide began some time ago. As they incrementally slid so went the product & the audience followed.
Sound like it'll hit rock bottom soon enough, how couldn't it?
"In some cases, local TV stations are facing the same problems as local newspapers: fewer advertisers (as department stores vanish and auto dealerships struggle) and dollars shifting to other platforms, like the Internet."
While *no* part of the tank's due to banal synthesized & extruded *personalities* reading pap, ad naseum to people who really don't like them????
They're delusional, truly adrift. LOL
"The Washington Post reported that Fox-owned WTTG may have its anchors operate their own TelePrompTers, via their hands and feet."
Oh, the horror.
Could the TOTUS be far behind? Then he could literally tap dance his way through speeches.
How Green is that? :o)
Tell you one thing about that "may have" scenario.
There'll be new mandatory 3 credit courses in "Digit Care & Welfare" in the JSchools required of wannabes to compliment the obligatory broadcaster prerequisite.
Good grief. LOL
I could've parsed every paragraph, but, cocktails have been mixed & poured and waiting. Besides, *I* have had enough laughs for a day thanks to Variety.
Don't want to hog 'em all, y'know. ;^) LOL
As usual, thanks for posting this stuff abb.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why anyone would watch local (or national) TV news. You essentially get but a few paragraphs of what is normally a complicated story best presented in a written form, in its entirety.
But then again, I have never been a Joe Schmoe who sits on the sofa and watches this bland stuff.