The thing was that CNN's reputation was built around breaking news and that its breakthrough was Bernie Shaw and Peter Arnett in that Baghdad hotel room with the bombs blasting close to them. If the channel who built its reputation on breaking news can't even do that right...
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > All due respect to any legit journalists who might have still been > employed at CNN, but I haven't seen any evidence of substantive journalism > on the network in years. Granted, I tend to watch during breaking news > events, arguably what all cable networks are worst at. But since, as Mark J > pointed out, cable news currently consists of talking heads screaming at > each other, if that is the accepted "style" of TV news, I'd lay off 50 > people, too. In a situation such as the one we face in US media, > journalists are just dead weight in a newsroom. > > A few weeks ago, when I lamented that AMC no longer stood for American > Movie Classics and ought to consider a different name for the network, > someone on this message board said the letters no longer stood for > anything. That's how I feel about CNN. > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Mostly news producers, some of whom will have get a job reoffer at a >> lower salary--the newsroom in Atlanta is understandably "shell-shocked" at >> Doogie Zucker's latest move: >> >> >> http://www.thewrap.com/cnn-layoffs-news-digital?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=contactology >> >> Interesting is that Doogie wants the newsroom to only do "three or four" >> news packages a day. I presume that means a produced and edited piece, >> which in the good old days was what most TV news consisted of (the >> so-called "magic time" at CBS when Cronkite was on camera was only five or >> six minutes of the 22 minutes of the evening newscast program time). Of >> course, instead we have satellite interviews and biovators--something else >> to blame on Fox News Channel. >> >> -- >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
