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To: kattracks
specifically tailored to different viewers tastes.

I don't see this ever happening. If this clown is suggesting that they'll have one channel with all Liberal clowns on it, and another with all Conservative viewpoints on it, that just increased the salary budget 2 fold. Where the hell is all this money going to come from?

I remember when the alphabet soup channels closed down foreign bureaus years ago, because leaving them open and staffed was affecting the bottom line, thus affecting the viewers viewpoint of events happening overseas, and concentrated solely on domestic news, bombings in Israel, or Presidents taking trips to visit foreign heads-of-state. Somewhere, there is going to be some give and take.

15 posted on 09/04/2004 12:22:16 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
I remember when the alphabet soup channels closed down foreign bureaus years ago, because leaving them open and staffed was affecting the bottom line, thus affecting the viewers viewpoint of events happening overseas, and concentrated solely on domestic news, bombings in Israel, or Presidents taking trips to visit foreign heads-of-state. Somewhere, there is going to be some give and take.

I heard a lecture by Dan Rather shortly after they did this, and he was bewailing the closing down of foreign news bureaus. What he failed to note was that the closing down of these bureaus closely coincided with the "star system" being implemented by the networks. Previously, network reporters were paid well, but they weren't millionaires. Now, guys like Koppel, Rather and the rest are paid millions, even though they do nothing but read reports on the air. While CNN primarily sucks, when Turner was running it, they had a cap on on-air talent annual salary of something like $150,000, and Turner believed that the news was the star.

A friend of mine runs a journalism department at the college where I work, and I can guarantee you that NOBODY wants to be a reporter. Everyone wants to write editorials. Nobody wants to do the hard work of researching stories, going through public records, or writing an unbiased account of an occurrence. The same is true of television news. They go someplace to use it as a background so they can spout their editorial in front of an interesting piece of scenery. Working a foreign desk is dangerous, dirty hard work.

Besides, most newspeople won't let facts get in the way of their reporting, anyway.

122 posted on 09/04/2004 7:27:20 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
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