Agreed. Would be great if this signaled a return to serious local news. The LAT, not surprisingly, frames this move as a response to their investigations into gender bullying and discriminatory racial practices in the CBS Department.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-04-15/cbs-tv-stations-combines-cbs-news-wendy-mcmahon-neeraj-khemlani-dunn-friend-times-investigation On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 2:21 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's interesting is that CBS is going back to having News control the > owned stations' local news shops--something they and NBC did back in the > 50s and 60s, until the ABC-owned stations, which news shops weren't > controlled by the news department, changed local news forever with the > "Eyewitness News" format (and what was called disparagingly back then > "happy talk"). Eventually, News let go of the local departments and CBS > and NBC-owned stations continued to have soft ratings while ABC's stations > continued to dominate in those markets (although "happy talk" per se at its > worst eventually disappeared). Is CBS going to try to rebuild the local > shops as serious news outlets like in the Cronkite days? > > Mark Jeffries > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 2:53 PM Diner <bwayst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dan Rather and Connie Chung? >> >> Seriously, this is the first I've heard about Zirinsky leaving. Sounds >> like it was not the smooth match that had been expected. >> >> >> On Friday, April 16, 2021 at 3:26:34 PM UTC-4 steve...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Take a look at this story from the Poynter Institute >>> https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2021/cbs-news-names-a-new-president-and-its-actually-two-people/ >>> >>> >> -- >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ec028554-b959-4d8d-ac61-7a5850f3fa6en%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/ec028554-b959-4d8d-ac61-7a5850f3fa6en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8sp3bCeD5vYjaVqK0y%2BJUE90pr74iboadsqm-%3DMBLZOQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi8sp3bCeD5vYjaVqK0y%2BJUE90pr74iboadsqm-%3DMBLZOQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKAFR56gOGAVOKHJMOQdz1E_sZO4PdxRVQgx5C%2BY7nzeQ%40mail.gmail.com.
