Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position. |
It's about time the morning shows got caught for making journalistic misjudgments. |
It's not too much. He's not a household [name]... but it's a really vivid way to dramatize the truth of an underlying story - the story of how dangerous Iraq is, and that's an important story to be told. |
Matt has really blossomed. He?s come into his own. I think Matt can carry the show while they break in a new co-host. |
People are realizing that traditional mainstream media has had its opinion, tone and attitude eradicated excessively. It's taken this long for the networks to learn from Fox's success. |
She hasn't done hard news for years, but I'm absolutely confident she knows how. The question is: Does she want to do it? I don't think she does. |
She hasn't got any track record in the evening. She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. |
She knows how to do live television. She would be the one doing the nine-hour stints in the anchor chair, and doing morning television prepares you for that. |
She might alienate as many viewers as she attracts. It's an awful lot of money you're spending on her, so just to break even you've got to increase your audience by a significant amount. |
The only place I've seen an equivalent velocity would be on the tabloid entertainment shows. |
The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good headline get in the way of the ... facts. |
There have always been a few of these stories that had a special thing about them, |
There was a time with broadcast television's economic model when it made a lot of sense to spend a lot of money on celebrity journalists. But now, we're in an era of media fragmentation, which is only going to get more extreme. |
There's no reason why CBS News can't be an online brand, a Tiffany brand there. But you don't do it by saying the future lies in television. |
They had her flying around with the Thunderbirds, and obviously that was a high-profile story for her, but that's not the kind of thing that's going to turn heads. |