On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 19:36, Ed Dravecky <[email protected]> wrote:
> donz5 <[email protected]> wrote: > > (2) MSNBC wasn't much better -- too bright and brittle; ok for me for > > political coverage but for this. > > Having flipped around for much of Saturday night trying to find > coverage I could settle into, I found MSNBC actually had the best > organized anchor desk and the least hyperbolic coverage of the cable > networks. From the wee hours of Sunday morning until noon Eastern, > Alex Witt did a pretty amazing job of keeping coverage moving, didn't > dwell on the hype, and asked reasonable questions of guests and > reporters. MSNBC was also skeptical of NHC efforts to keep Irene a > hurricane when their own TWC meteorologist was saying it's a tropical > storm with a lot of storm surge. > Alex Witt's an old hand at doing breaking news coverage on her own. She has had the weekend shift at MSNBC forever and seems to be the only camera-ready person at 30 Rock on weekends between the Today show and Nightly News, because, if the news is big enough, they'll have her interrupt the MSNBC coverage and do a quick special report on the NBC network. Unfortunately, she also just had her shift cut from four hours per weekend day to two so that frequent Maddow substitute Chris Hayes can get his own show without cutting back on the umpteen hours of "Lockup" and "To Catch a Predator" they air between Friday evening and Monday morning. Bonus: MSNBC wasn't using a lightning-flash background for their > coverage then way CNN was. It was darn near epilepsy inducing and > designed to catch the eye or ratchet up tension, not inform or provide > context. > (MS)NBC seemed to be using the same hurricane graphics The Weather Channel has had for ages. I guess someone at Comcast figured out that it wasn't worth it to have three different networks each doing their own thing for the same news event. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
