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Mr Mike
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Posted: Tue Apr 1st, 2008 10:26 pm |
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CBS Cuts At Local Stations And National News; Includes Online
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/01/paidcontent/main3986783.shtml
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techpuppy
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Posted: Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 07:41 pm |
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The real losers in this are the public. So much TV news has become fluff. Sure feature stories add some interest, but OTA broadcast TV really isn't delivering the news as they did. We have to have 3d animated graphics, human interest stories, and even recipes. How many times during the ice storms earlier this year did we get "live" coverage from a reporter standing outside a TV station. "Are the streets getting slick?" asks the anchor. "No, traffic is moving slow but the streets are clear." Wow, riveting useful information.
In doing research on news you can see the impact and the importance of good news coverage using people with journalistic skills. (Not necessarily J-school graduates.) Corporate media reporters are afraid to ask important questions because of their employers and also possible backlash from those they interview. NBC has to run uplifting war stories because GE has their hand in the network. Presidential news conferences are a hilarious mix of subdued questions and misdirected answers. A local TV station did a half hour infomercial show on living at Lake of the Ozarks and on their website labeled it as a "public affairs" program.
Listen to some of the historical recordings of radio news reporting. "This is CBS news in New York calling Honolulu, come in Honolulu....(static)" Of course we know now why the line was silent. Remember Chernobyl (sp?)? Radio was there with almost constant updates as the disaster unfolded. Where would you tune now?
So I don't view cuts in the news department as a good thing for anyone, even though the story says it amounts to 1% including technical staff. The country over the last few years has lost much in the way of quality news reporting, usually due to corporate cost cutting. CBS built much of their reputation on their news coverage, regardless of any controversy.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11th, 2008 12:52 am |
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Setback For Dan Rather Lawsuit Against CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/national/main4006080.shtml
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Posted: Fri Apr 11th, 2008 12:14 pm |
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| You seem to take such glee in posting any "Bad news about the old media" Mike. Kind of un-American I think. A healthy media is a good enough thing for those who created this great nation to seek freedom of the press to have a role with the seperate branches of government in checks and balances. If you want and enjoy a whittiling down of the media to the point when there is but one source or viewpoint presented, may I suggest you travel north a few miles from your home in "South Korea", cross the 38th parallel, and listen/view/read all the state sponsored news you can handle.
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techpuppy
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Posted: Fri Apr 11th, 2008 05:31 pm |
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The sad thing about the Rather story is that it was a case of CBS not standing behind its news department. The documents that Rather refered to in the course of his story about Bush were later proved not to be genuine. However no one ever disproved the accuracy of the information presented in the story. Even the secretary who said the documents were not genuine said that they reflected the true facts.
Instead of focusing on what Bush didn't do as far as his "military experience" went, all of the attention was focused on Rather and a supporting document.
If the same standard were applied to Fox News there would be no one working there now.
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techpuppy
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Posted: Fri Apr 11th, 2008 05:37 pm |
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Make that Fox "News".
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