On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:37 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote: > So the network breaks in near the end of Craig tonight to report on the > Texas explosion. The report gave just the basics (including some video of > the blast), including the time of the explosion - sometime in the 8 pm hour > (Eastern). > > So, did someone decide to repeat the Special Report - intentionally or > otherwise? Because there was nothing that seemed to note new developments, > or a reason to break in so late. There's no way this could have been the > first time CBS broke in with the story.
I won't defend network news, not after today, but I think the reason for the lack of info is the lack of -- well -- talent to be found in a central affiliate station in Texas. All their resources are going to be stretched to Boston. Now they have to recall personnel, reallocate resources, and that's not easy when they have no operating budget. Los Angeles local news is operating at about 40% of the manpower they had even a few years ago... I can't imagine Austin or Dallas affiliates are better staffed or equipped. In short, even if (and it is a big if), they wanted to investigate the causes, determine the long term impact, review the damage, etc... there's nobody paid to do any of that. So they will show the same phone-video capturing the explosions over and over again, report the dead, and that will be that. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
