On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Karla Robinson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What Kevin said.
>
> Yes, PGage, Kevin's being extreme here, but he's calling for ONE HOUR per
> day of this kind of newscast.  I love opinionated news myself, but I'd also
> like to have a source to go to for an in-depth, honest, extremely
> well-researched and well-informed approach to stories.  An hour of this a
> day doesn't seem like too much to ask.  I feel like Ted Koppel used to do
> this on occasion.  At least, whenever I tuned in to Koppel, I felt like I
> was watching a real live journalist searching for the truth of a matter, not
> a partisan with an ax to grind.
>
> It seems like an hour of what Kevin's describing below would be a major
> selling point for the network, if they could make it work.

Oh, I certainly agree - except that I do not much like opinionated
news at all. My only point is that there is room in a real newscast to
get people from different opinions in a room and ask them questions,
and have have a conversation with each other.

I actually don't think it is too much to ask for all news on
television to be honest, well-research and well-informed. If it is not
those things it should not be allowed to use the term "news". NewsHour
has its problems, but it certainly comes close to the mark most of the
time. I am not optimistic King will come as close in his new show on
CNN, but I hope he does.

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