What Are the Problems With Broadcast Television?
Let me begin to answer the question by noting that ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and NBC have colorful, functional broadcast platforms, sporting nattily dressed and coiffed talkers. From there on it is all downhill, excluding their meteorologists who seldom if ever venture a political comment.
The talkers are universally unable to separate fact from fiction. Their makeup fails to hide their fawning attitude each time they mention the Obama. August 4, on the CBS Evening News, Chip Reid, a very neat and well-spoken young man whose only raison d'être appears to be regurgitating the liberal biases of his masters.
Chip jumped right on the bandwagon to claim the Tea Party had lost its popularity. It sure has with the Democrats and for good and obvious reasons.
Scott Pelley, Katie Couric’s welcome replacement, is a master at disguising his prejudices and biases, however he is a talker for CBS that makes him suspect. His immediate predecessor, Bob Schieffer leaves no doubt. He, early in his career, passed himself off as a Dallas detective in order to gain access to a telephone in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. Anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt. He is blatantly and sickeningly liberal unable to even take a peek at the reverse of that coin.
The CBS talking heads have no compunction about handing out or spouting out, not only misleading but false information as if it was fact. Of course and sadly that is true of most of the lame-stream media and of the members of the Federal bureaucracy in Washington.
Growing up in Montana, I had the great pleasure and good fortune to know and really admire Mr. Frank A Whetstone, the owner, publisher, editor, and general factotum of the Cut Bank Pioneer Press that came out every Friday morning. (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43551)
He was a Journalist’s Journalist, which means he published the news of the day. The first paragraph of a news item invariably contained the five, possibly six elements of a good news story. Who, What, When, Where, How and (when possible), Why.
I am certain Mr. Whetstone would not have needed the copious sheets of paper used by today’s pseudo journalists to tell us the audience the news. At least not if they were telling the truth without some untruthful embellishment. When you tell the truth, you don’t need much of a memory and few notes.
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