What the heck does this mean?
“be replaced with “digital” journalists who would be expected to shoot and edit their own stories.”
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What it means is this: there are younger kids out there, fresh out of Journalism school, who are willing to do all the work that, at a network level, takes a PHOTOGRAPHER, REPORTER, EDITOR and ENGINEER. At cheaper labor rates...just to get their name on a major network.
Standards are in the toilet for TV news, not that they ever were REALLY very high...but more “shelf space” for news means the providers need cheaper product.
And you get what you pay for. :)
Technology today is easy enough to allow any brain dead leftist to put together their own “news” story....ever watch Al Gore’s “Current TV”? They have had layoffs, and no one watches, but it still moves on.
ABC’s advantage is that it has a huge distribution machine: the network affiliates. And ESPN. And a few other outlets. So they can hire cheaper “journalists” (I use that term very very loosely) and still spread out their liberal manure all over the nation.
Bloggers are replacing dan rathers.