Hey! Here’s a Wild Idea!
“They’re in a state of transition, and they don’t know what their role is. So they’ve been all over the lot. For a while . . . everything had to be reported from a consumer point of view. Then they went to entertainment, the O.J. syndrome. They’ve tried consumers, hype, entertainment. One of these days, the network people—who are smart people—will sit around a table like this, and one of them will say, ‘How about if we go back to covering serious news?’ They’ll say, ‘Eureka!’ . . . Commercial television can’t get any worse, for God’s sake.”Editor’s Note: That’s just crazy enough to work.
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Excerpt from 'Losing The News' by Alex S. Jones, by permission of the publisher, Oxford University Press.
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Chapter One: The Iron Core
Unfortunately, that meant we had to offer buyouts to some very talented people.
— Brian Kelley, editor of U.S. News & World Report, quoted by Washington.com after the magazine eliminated its investigative unit for economic reasons.