[Beaten Valve]

Hasta La Vista, Baby!

[keats5]

Will they still be reporting that the stimulus is working?

[Personal Responsibility]

Maybe if they chose to report the news with some semblance of objectivity this wouldn’t happen.

Jus’ sayin’.....

[rabidralph]

How are they going to work out the union separation between talent and crew if the reporters are shooting and editing their own stories, I wonder?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[samadams2000]

“Honey how much money is left in Poppa’s trust fund?”.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Just hasn’t been the same since David Brinkley went off the air.

[Dumb_Ox]

There may be political elements to some of these layoffs, like targeting the white guy who doesn't "increase diversity" or the gal who was insufficiently enthusiastic about Obama or the boss' pet cause. If that's going on, the media will only get worse.

(This is a reason shrinking the government also won't work if budget cuts leave only the most ruthless, budget-expanding, affirmative action-protected bureaucrats in place.)

[PGalt]

Thanks very much for the post; ping. ABC propagandists. 300-400 enablers gone? GRRRRRREAT news!

[Hoodat]

No one told them that elections have consequences.

[SoldierDad]

Hopefully PMSNBC will be next to make big cuts - and I hope Olbermann is at the top of the list.

[My Favorite Headache]

They would save a ton of dough if they just got rid of The View...or as I call it “The Spew”.

[americanophile]

“My mother...was pretty anti-American. And so I was, in some respects, raised with anti-Americanism in my blood, or in my mother's milk at least." - Peter Jennings

Wouldn't watch it then, won't watch it now. Good riddance I say.

[americanophile]

[Vaquero]

the MSM like common dung beetles....wander aimlessly, head in the sand....moving backward...while pushing their crap and hoping it sticks to something.....

[Peter Libra]

I was interested to read the statement by David Westin on ABC News about the forthcoming cuts in staff. A memo stated "But all of us are good reporters. We can see that our society is in the midst of change". He sounded very up beat on the ability of the media to get in ahead of this change.

In the early hours I picked up a radio station and it was fading somewhat. An author was talking of his book regarding the triangle in the presidential election. He had it that Hilary Clinton and John McCain were aghast at a complete newcomer, without much of a record of service. This was Barack Obama, suddenly gaining an immense coverage. The author claimed the McCain camp were apprehensive of McCain turning on Obama with such vitriol, it would turn off the electorate. Now came this telling statement.

McCain had been the "media darling," now the new "media darling," was Barack Obama.

I asked myself, "is this journalism? ". Surely the massive war rooms of the candidates were there for that. Surely the meetings of supporters and gatherings are there for that. I concluded that the media, or much of it, seems to be like a skittish adolescent. Waiting to be titillated by some flight of fancy, it is a free country to do that.

The most vital thing was completely missed by them. That being "who really is Barack Obama?" They told us enough about the then Governor Sarah Palin. No more needs to be said by me.

[T Lady]

Good thing John Stossel jumped ship, eh?