Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.