> If the cure for cancer was discovered tomorrow, can anybody state with > conviction that any of the major news anchors could grasp the complexity > of complex medical breakthroughs?
I doubt that any network anchor would ever have been able to grasp something like that. It's possible that a particular story would fall into an anchor's area of interest/expertise, like Cronkhite and the space program, but assuming an anchor knew/knows about everything is like assuming that for a Jeopardy! host. > No, they'd bring on a quack like Dr Oz to dumb it down for > the Oprah demographic. This is the big difference. Decades ago, each network would have a stable of correspondents who could handle stories in different areas, be they intellectual or geographic. Now, they bring on "experts" from outside, some of whom have more expertise than others. -- -- 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.
