Posted on 04/26/2005 4:12:59 AM PDT by JBW
Free advice, as they say, often is worth what it costs. Les Moonves, who runs CBS, has been getting a lot of it on what he should do to resurrect the "CBS Evening News."
The positive is that all this attention to the evening news--advice appearing even in serious newspapers, no less--is yet another sign of its continued importance, despite the splintering of the audience among broadcasters, cable outlets and the Internet. The evening news still has a major role to play in this democracy; it can survive and even thrive if it develops new ways of serving the public.
The negative is that most of the free advice is, in fact, worth what it costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
CBS NEWS has flatlined
Friedman's delusional. He wants a nightly newsmagazine featuring the likes of Tucker Carlson?
Would it be possible to include a few more paragraphs when posting? The "three lines" stuff is too thin... Waaaaaaayyy too thin. Thanks.
CBS needs a lot of advice. But, it does not need it from ABC. To hell with abcnnbcbs.
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