http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/04/16/whats-news-who-knows-welcome-to-print-20/ As The Media Watches The World, We Watch The Media Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/04/16/whats-news-who-knows-welcome-to-print-20/#comment-14149 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:05:32 +0000 http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/04/16/whats-news-who-knows-welcome-to-print-20/#comment-14149 Couric is simply a symptom of top down rot. She was a nebbisher reporter at best and her staying or leaving simply a symbol of waste. Like the empty suits with the full bank accounts at the Times who have the best news money can buy or lie. Television news is mostly top down and corrupt, that is long established that anything good gets air time is a matter of the hard work and luck of burrowing into the sick cow and remaining ethical while selling Preparation H or writing grants to organizations that exist to fund grants writers. Maybe it's time for structural changes. Couric is simply a symptom of top down rot. She was a nebbisher reporter at best and her staying or leaving simply a symbol of waste. Like the empty suits with the full bank accounts at the Times who have the best news money can buy or lie.
Television news is mostly top down and corrupt, that is long established that anything good gets air time is a matter of the hard work and luck of burrowing into the sick cow and remaining ethical while selling Preparation H or writing grants to organizations that exist to fund grants writers.
Maybe it’s time for structural changes.

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