None of this seems to have any affect on what is still my chief criticism of all the broadcast news media. They are shuffling people to different shows and different times of day, but where are the experts on staff? Where are the news bureaus in major cities and countries? In my ideal world of rainbows and puppy dogs, the most visible presence on social media of any news outlet would be its ombudsman. Do network news divisions even have those anymore?
Ultimately these proposed moves are the equivalent of the metaphorical shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic. They don’t want to address the fundamental problem, specifically broadcast news’ inability to achieve ratings by actually investigating and reporting on the day’s events. It’s easier to place personalities and pundits and stars in chairs or on split screens to opine or to shout talking points. Sorry if I’m repeating myself, but I have attempted to watch news the last couple weeks; it had been a while, and wow how the mighty have fallen. I miss Peter Jennings. I miss Bernie Shaw. I even miss Dan Rather. They weren’t perfect, but they owned their words and they respected their audience. On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:00 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is interesting. The evening news is prestige, but the morning news is > the money maker. Norah O'Donnell is not as obscure as Jeff Glor was when he > was tapped to anchor the news, but she seems to be another placeholder > until they find their white knight. > So they're going from stuffing the morning newscast with anchors to > focusing on their star. > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:44 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> “The new president of CBS News, Susan Zirinsky, is about to try something >> radical. She's restructuring pretty much of all of the news division's >> talent across the board," a CBS staffer said. "It's really pretty epic." >> >> Among other things, CBS This Morning to be re-centered just on King; >> O'Donnell replacing Glor At Evening News" which will relocate to >> Washington, D.C., where O'Donnell's family is based. >> https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/media/cbs-news-restructure/index.html >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
