You laid-off Nitwork Newsers should do what I did when I got sacked ... find another way to contribute to society in a meaningful way as a self appointed libtard expert in everything.
Courage.
"Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded."
Walter Abbott, (b. 1950), Media observer, blogger and commentator
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Lies just don’t work well.
...How do you generate more profit?
Which came first the audience or the advertising revenues?
Try giving the audience what they want (facts,truth), not what you think they want. :)
Propaganda is popular only with the propagandists, the liars they flatter and their dogs.
Providing cover and free propoganda for Democrats and Socialists...
You laid-off Nitwork Newsers should do what I did when I got sacked ... find another way to contribute to society in a meaningful way as a self appointed libtard expert in everything.
Courage.
How many people does it take to receive a biased news report from AP and send it to someone who reads it.
1. That only CNN dropped their prerecorded BS and carried TV Chile's live feed, which I watched via live streaming video on the internet. The rest for the first couple hours just did cut ins. Once they all went live they relied heavily on people's cell phone/downloaded video and twitter reports. To those of us with the knowledge and capability we got news from the scene faster then the cable news and regular networks could provide and without it being filtered through a bunch of helmet haired anchorpeople.
“Long term, it’s going to get harder for these guys to exist as they are currently constructed, with the exception of NBC because it can offload the costs on MSNBC,” Michael Nathanson, an industry analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said.
Michael Nathanson is wrong. NBC Universal can not afford it any more then any of the others. The only "black" at MSNBC is the black hole the money is getting sucked into. If the Comcast deal goes through I would suspect that MSNBC will fold. The problem for all of these entities is that the business model they are operating on is about as outdated as the horse and buggy. My broadcast production professor told my class the very first day (many moons ago) that broadcasting is probably the worst managed business in the world because it makes money no matter what and making money provides cover for very bad business practices. Well, those days are over and the accountants are telling them that something has to give and alot of people have to go. Under the "current" model (which has not changed much from the 1960's) they have crap tons of assignment desk editors, video editors, camera crews, ENG/SNG truck operators, associate producers, etc.-a virtual Versailles of servants that are no longer needed. The days of reporters going on assignment with a cameraman, an audio operator, a ENG truck and a producer are over. As Chile proved they will get their butts kicked by someone with a cell phone or a video camera and a YouTube account.
Another thing that is over are the days of the overpaid anchors and reporters. They can no longer afford the exorbitant salaries they pay these people because they no longer bring in the viewers, in fact they have served to turn off many viewers with their condescension and arrogance. Money talks and right now what the owners of these entities are hearing from their accountants is that bubble headed bleach blonds like Katie Couric and rabid Keith Olberman are not worth what they are getting paid.
The one big question is how long will it take the owners and management of the networks to figure out that their biggest problem with their news divisions is their overt bias which is so bad that no one trusts them anymore to report the facts. I am going to guess that they will never figure it out-they, like their news staffs, all live in the gated community of the mind that exists in Hollywood and the upper west side of Manhattan. They simply can not understand why the rest of us do not see the world the way they do-these people know more about tribes in Africa then they do about the majority of the people in this country. For most of them we might as well be Martians, that is how little they know and understand us. They also can not understand why we do not bow before and blindly follow them-after all, in their minds they are our "intellectual betters" and we should blindly believe them and follow them.
The only thing I can say, is: MSNBC is actually making a profit??? They must be operating on a shoe string. Whith their audience numbers, even that can’t last much longer.
Also, I bet that with every mass layoff, these networks will get ideologically purer (e.g., even more Liberal). In the end they will just be hermatically sealed echo chambers serving an ever smaller audience. Newsweek is already the textbook case for this.
So?...Why is this death taking so long?
Is Andrew serious?
How about being “fair and balanced”?
How about covering some of the stories the Fox refuses to cover? ( homosexual outrages and Obama’s eligibility)
DON'T THESE PEOPLE AT ABC CARE?????
This isn’t good news. They’re cutting costs by transforming themselves from a news gathering agency with a strong bias, to one of simply reading Party talking points and the news releases of the Establishment Left. (Obviously, this transformation has been going on for a long time.)
Bernie Goldberg’s “Bias” is obsolete. It doesn’t even matter now whether journalists have bias; journalists have nothing to do with TV News.
Presenting unbiased news people want to see is simply not in the business plan. “Creative Division” simply wouldn’t stand for it, and it creates poor lead-in for shows based on trashy sex, murder, and compulsive behavior. And the shows are based on those things, because advertisers rely on people being influenced by trashy sex, compulsive behavior, and prevailing world view dominated by evil. It also conflicts with the four-hour-long informercials known as Morning News/Talk.
The best hope is that the networks get out of evening news altogether, but that would discredit the morning infomercials, so it’s gonna have to get a lot worse still.
As far as I can see, there are no investigative reporters left. There are a few bright reporters who actually pick up the news one way or another and go with it. But the number of people going out in the field—and then leaving their hotel or the bar—is virtually nil.
Clinton got them hooked on the faxed talking points. And they can always re-shuffle the NY Times or the Washington ComPost, when they come up with a leaked interview.
But almost all of their highest-paid employees are talking heads, who read the propaganda that is put in front of them. Or on the NY Times OpEd page, they sit in the office or the bar and make up their column, never going out to check anything first hand.
You don’t need to actually visit the White House to know that Obama has a sharp crease in his trousers, or to repeat that he’s a greater orator than Abe Lincoln. Investigation would just make it harder to write those stories.
So, how many news staffers do you actually need? I imagine they no longer get their talking points via fax. Most likely they get them in MS Word or whatever format can go straight to the printers.
I notice you didn't venture an estimate as to how long "after the 2008 elections" your prophecy would come to pass...