Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. As budget cuts and staff cuts occur at TV stations and newspapers, this will only get worse an worse. I don't have much hope for the profession of journalism to improve until the who country takes a swing back the other direction of owners feeling some responsibility to not only make boat-loads of money (as they do like almost no other industry this side of drug dealing) but to actually serve a tiny bit of public service by actually doing a good job. (Not in this generation of business people!) I never had much respect for most TV news. Al Franken has them pegged. On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 10:58 AM, bdcolen wrote: > That may be true, Eric, but as one who works in pharma PR, I can tell > you that t.v. stations all over the country routine use "video news > releases" AS IS, with local 'talent' perhaps providing a setup line. > Same thing with RNR, radio news releases. And while you are absolutely > spot on about what newspaper ethics should be, you'd be amazed the > pickup "matt releases" - fully prepared 'news stories' that are dropped > right into the paper - get. Eric Carlsbad, CA "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage." - --- John and Alma Dunlap - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html