Let me just tailgate on those comments about BriWi. I think he's a wonderfully funny man, an engaging conversationalist, and a great talk show panelist, but someone who has no credibility as a newsman. But that sort of fits with NBC's vision of that role; one that began with when Brokaw began bloviating about things.
--Dave Sikula On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:40:42 AM UTC-7, Joe Hass wrote: > > To jump on the slight derail: > > I have a rather robust range of people on my Facebook friend list, and I > have been totally gobsmacked at how many reasonably-intelligent people > utterly missed the point of the Scotus ruling on Hobby Lobby. These are > people who I would expect to understand or at least do the additional > reading explaining what was decided. But they bought the lazy line of > journalism that was pumped out by pretty much everyone (did ANY of you > bother to read up on the case before Monday?), and it turned into a > cacophony of stupid. > > At this moment (to kinda bring this back to our board topic), I don't > think there's a single reason to watch TV news in any format for any > reason. I like Brian Williams, but he's currently on probation after that > Fallon interview from a month ago. And I see no movement from them to > change in a manner that would reconsider. > On Jul 1, 2014 8:01 PM, "Melissa P" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Not really related to the subject, but anyway… >> >> >> >> A few weeks ago, I made a special point of watching Fox News in the >> morning for more than hour because I wanted to know how it was covering the >> latest climate change report. The subject didn’t even get a mention even >> though it was a leading story on all the broadcast networks, the New York >> Times, and the Washington Post. >> >> >> >> Today, I made a special point of being around to catch the news on The >> Today Show because I wanted to hear its coverage (Pete Williams) of >> yesterday’s two Supreme Court rulings. They didn’t get a mention. >> >> >> >> I hate having to cut Fox News some slack now. The Today Show’s lack of >> coverage of the Supreme Court decisions makes it difficult for me to >> complain about Fox News’ highly selective reporting. And, I’m annoyed. >> >> >> >> BTW I prefer Brian Williams, too. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking >> news anchor than Ms Sawyer? >> >> >> >> To me, it isn't about who the better anchor is. It's about which network >> is in the best position to provide on-the-ground coverage of breaking news. >> By virtue of the fact NBC news has to provide news coverage to the main >> network as well as MSNBC (and, to an extent, Univision), they have a slight >> advantage in terms of the budget they can set aside for reporters and >> bureaus. Their affiliates have also been the least likely to farm work out >> to other cities (I think I read there's now a Fox affiliate in Florida >> somewhere whose newscast is produced almost entirely in Maine), so they >> have local "talent" to draw from when things occur. >> >> >> >> Prior to the death of Peter Jennings (let's all pause and sigh about that >> for a moment), I think ABC did the best job of allocating resources. >> Network news did the wraparounds, Nightline provided in-depth analysis, and >> 20/20 did investigative (albeit biased) reporting... there was a balance to >> it all, and an ability to borrow from each branch as needed. CNN may have >> had more experts back then, but they weren't as strategically positioned. >> But all that has dramatically changed. I wouldn't trust ABC to tell me the >> time of day. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
