On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:54 AM, calwatch <calwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Um, CBS? Pelley is a reasonable, serious alternative. I don't think he > does disasters well (Brian Williams is great with that) but if the stock > market plunges a thousand points or the US invades another foreign country > I would go to CBS. > > Pelley's good at what he does, but he lacks the services needed to cover breaking news. Again, there was a time "60 Minutes" could provide depth, and CBS used to have a team of both science and medical experts on staff, but the Katie Couric era killed its ability to be taken seriously by me. It is akin to McCain choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate -- I just can't respect someone who makes such a piss-poor choice. CBS farms out a lot of its reporting to ITV and even BBC, and that includes some domestic stories. When it comes time to analyze events, they often bring in journalists from print media because they simply lack experts in-house. In a way, this relates to my criticism of SCOTUS. We now have news agencies reporting on stories they know little to nothing about. If the cure for cancer was discovered tomorrow, can anybody state with conviction that any of the major news anchors could grasp the complexity of complex medical breakthroughs? No, they'd bring on a quack like Dr Oz to dumb it down for the Oprah demographic. If North Korea and Russia signed an agreement to jointly develop new weapons of mass destruction (a situation that is entirely feasible in this political climate), which network has the staff to adequately route through the international repercussions and lay out the potential impact to the US and its allies? They rely on outside pundits and experts, many of whom would be fending for themselves in the face of breaking news, which leaves network anchors reading press releases, pretending actual journalism has occurred. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
