Posted on 09/10/2010 12:04:28 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Marketwatch.com's Jon Friedman has a question about ABC News, what with the impending departure of David Westin, the cutting of 25% of the staff, and the fact that the news division remains ensconced in second place:
Now, I have the audacity to ask: Can anything save ABC News from extinction? Right now -- and for the foreseeable future -- the smart answer would be a curt "no."
What say you, ABC News?
ABC News spokesperson Jeffrey Schneider tells TVNewser, "Just take a look at this week: George Stephanopoulos's exclusive interview with the president. Martha Raddatz in Afghanistan with Gen. Petraeus and Christiane Amanpour interviewing Iman Rauf as the news of Florida Pastor Terry Jones is breaking."
"We are firing on all cylinders."
"Jon's prediction about ABC News belongs at the bottom of the birdcage and this news organization will be going strong long after Jon Friedman is gone."
Can anything save ABC News - ‘start telling the truth”
Only one thing will save them.
If a bunch of real conservatives came together and BOUGHT the entire network from Disney.
Anything less, and ABC is a fire sake waiting to happen.
whatever happened to the plan to outsource CBS News to CNN??
~And Diane Sawyer’s next gig on “Kindergarten Kop.”
Is it just me, or does she sound like a Nanny to everyone else?
The woman just makes me want to vomit when she “delivers” what is supposed to be news on ABC.
One wonders how the entire network can survive. Their entire evening line-up consists off 3 episodes of Wipeout five days a week. What a joke
She will sprinkle him with rose water before the interview.
They only need to tell the Truth and make a very hard right and steer towards the center.
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ABCNNBCBS Dinosaur Media Deathwatch ping.
American Idol judges are in a disarray... I bet Charlie Gibson would take the job in a heartbeat...
I wonder what the demographics are for MSM nightly news broadcasts? (I'm curious, but not curious enough to take the time to look it up). I suspect that most of their viewers are over the age of 50. I can't imagine anyone who knows how to find news on the Internet waiting around for the network talking heads to tell them what the news is at night.
I'm over 50, and haven't watched a network news broadcast for years. The only one that I know who watches them is my 85 year old mother, but that is mainly because she forgets how to use her remote.
That's an upgrade over the intelligence of their usual fare.
I suspect that the only ones that watch the MSM news are the same ones that watch Chris Matthews. Unless you are a socialist, why would you watch it? By the time that the nightly news comes on TV, it is old news. If I were the president of these networks, I would drop these relics and put on something that people would watch. No one needs the nightly news to find out what the news is.
We switched to Verizon FIOS last year and have whole house DVR and VOD.
So, we can VOD all the channels for our favorite shows within a day or two after they air with commercial breaks being about 15 seconds long.
The only show we watch on ABC is Castle.
I hate it when Headline Writers take liberties with the truth...
;>D
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