Posted on 09/07/2010 1:08:58 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
As part of the deep cuts announced this week at ABC News, the network plans to close all of its physical bureaus around the country except Washington and halve the number of its domestic correspondents.
ABC News President David Westin confirmed in an interview Friday that the network's ranks of bureau correspondents, which currently number several dozen, would be cut in half and be replaced with "digital" journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their own stories.
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It's clear why Westin quit yesterday.
I nominate little georgie stephanopoulos to join the unemployment line - it will give him more time to kiss 0bama’s ass.
ABC pushes anti-business Obama down our throats.
Obama destroys business.
ABC fires much of its staff.
JUSTICE IS SERVED!
The rewards of propagandizing.
So will the dinosaur media source ABC still be predominantly white after this action? Just wonderin’.
Fox needs to come out with a story headline reading “Fox news hiring” just to rub it in.
Oh, you haters of the MSM, this is just a bit of retooling. Once this last downsizing has taken place, it’ll be all sweetness and light.
You just wait and see.
How ironic is it that the ONLY bureau THEY think worth keeping is INSIDE THE BELTWAY.
As out of touch as their master.
They shouldn’t need that many people to quote the party line anyway.
Maybe now that the policies of Obama are hitting the talking heads they will open their eyes
Raoul’s First Law of Journalism: BIAS = LAYOFFS
What the heck does this mean?
Rut-roh, rubble Raggy! Guess some folks are going to have to get some real jobs out there.
...and be replaced with "digital" journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their own stories.Egad. They'll be bloggers. What about their layer and layers of fact-checking editors?
Good riddance state-run media! Serves you right, when you do nothing but lie to the American people, you all deserve to lose your jobs. You can join all the dem congressmen in the unemployments lines soon.
So ABC, how is that Hope and Change thing working out for you? Bwahahahahahahaha. You ba$tard$ deserve the worst for the way you have been misreporting things over the years.
Kind like some FReepers do.
It means they're going to fire all the people who are over 40 and making 6-figures annually, and replace them with twenty-something who will work for for Cheetos and Red Bull.
The Internet is slowly replacing the print and visual news media. The bad guys can’t control the news outlets like they could 30 years ago. That is why Jay Rockefeller and other socialist hate the Internet. Quote from Jay-
“So, I mean, it really almost makes you ask the question would it have been better had we not invented the internet and had to use paper and pencil whatever?
Dinosaur Death Watch - Lovin’ it.
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