Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Changing of the Media Guard?
Paul M. Weyrich,chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation, who once worked at a CBS affiliate as political reporter, now has this to say:
The so-called mainstream media, including and especially the CBS Evening News, are in a state of decline. Every single rating book which comes out shows less people watching their newscasts and more people watching cable, especially Fox News.
And then there are those people, now considerable in number, who no longer watch any television news. They have computers. They have their favorite web sites and a host of other conservative sites.
They also surf the newspapers around the country. They can pick and choose the stories and columns they want. They won't have a whole paper shoved down their throats.
It is truly a new world out there. One that I never thought I would live to see. I got tears in my eyes watching Vice President Spiro Agnew attack the major media at a media meeting in Des Moines, Iowa in 1969. I still think his forced resignation was payback time. Anyway, I never ever thought I would see the mighty networks having to fight to survive.
Some analysts are suggesting by the end of this decade there may not be the worldwide network facilities as we know them today. Newspapers for the most part are also in a steep decline. Many won't survive. Others may survive just online.
This is the reason that the liberals are so anxious to shut down talk radio. This is why they curse Fox News and are trying to figure out a scheme to put them out of business.
This is why the liberals are so anxious to tax and regulate the Internet.
These are the gasps of a dying industry. Rather resign? Heck no. He should stay there so he can go down with the ship. Some day, one of my grandchildren, looking at my curriculum vitae will ask, "Grandpa? What is CBS? It says here you once worked for an affiliate."
The so-called mainstream media, including and especially the CBS Evening News, are in a state of decline. Every single rating book which comes out shows less people watching their newscasts and more people watching cable, especially Fox News.
And then there are those people, now considerable in number, who no longer watch any television news. They have computers. They have their favorite web sites and a host of other conservative sites.
They also surf the newspapers around the country. They can pick and choose the stories and columns they want. They won't have a whole paper shoved down their throats.
It is truly a new world out there. One that I never thought I would live to see. I got tears in my eyes watching Vice President Spiro Agnew attack the major media at a media meeting in Des Moines, Iowa in 1969. I still think his forced resignation was payback time. Anyway, I never ever thought I would see the mighty networks having to fight to survive.
Some analysts are suggesting by the end of this decade there may not be the worldwide network facilities as we know them today. Newspapers for the most part are also in a steep decline. Many won't survive. Others may survive just online.
This is the reason that the liberals are so anxious to shut down talk radio. This is why they curse Fox News and are trying to figure out a scheme to put them out of business.
This is why the liberals are so anxious to tax and regulate the Internet.
These are the gasps of a dying industry. Rather resign? Heck no. He should stay there so he can go down with the ship. Some day, one of my grandchildren, looking at my curriculum vitae will ask, "Grandpa? What is CBS? It says here you once worked for an affiliate."
# posted by Knitting a Conundrum @ 8:44 AM 
