> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lousy reporting > > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:04:56AM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > > > I've been spoiled by the quality and timely reporting the web has > > brought me that I've forgotten how cruddy the 24hr news cycle shows > > are. No wonder Fox News is so ugly. > > Hmmm, I hadn't noticed because I almost never watch TV news. I > get 90% from web news articles and the rest from newspapers and > magazines. Thanks for the warning about TV news, now I know that I > should continue to avoid it...
I watch it in the morning. Well, to be more accurate, listen to it while I'm on the computer. Saturday night, I spent a very long time on the phone with a market research survey guy asking about local tv news. I usually don't do those things, but in this case, I was curious what they care about. It seemed to come down to a series of descriptions of the anchors, with which I was invited to agree or disagree from a scale of 1 to 5. The statements were something like these: "confident," "comfortable to watch," "knows the Bay Area well," "reliable," "committed and involved in the community." To the last, my answer was, "How the heck would I know? All I seem him/her do is read from a teleprompter..." There were also a bunch of questions about "investigative" reporting, which I couldn't answer at all, since I haven't seen anything on local news that even comes close to real investigative reporting. It was depressing hearing what they care about, although there really were no surprises. But I did have the opportunity to tell the researcher numerous times that for news and weather, I rely far more on the Internet than TV. (More than newspapers, too, but they didn't ask.) Nick (15 years as a reporter) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
