We Hardly Watched Ye!

I can't even remember the last time I watched the Network News (ie ABC/NBC/CBS). They lost me years ago. The closest thing I get to hearing the Network News is when Peter Jennings does the ABC radio top of the hour news at 4pm (CDT) (probably as a tease for his TV newscast). Years ago I religiously watched Nightline with Ted Koppel, but he became irrelevant to me probably about 8 years ago or so.

Long before the internet became popular, I relied on AM radio for my hourly news and information fix and I frequented Newstands and the local library to keep updated on as many periodicals as possible for more in depth material.

It's my opinion and apparently the opinion of many others, that TV Network News Departments have been in their death throes for years now. They have all but died and the fatal wounds are becoming gangrenous.

Doug Powers, a freelance writer, did a delightful little piece today eulogizing the Network News. Here are a couple of the great lines:

We'll miss Network News. With no more of Rather's "Texanisms," we'll be, as Dan may say, "as frustrated as a perverted farmhand with an electric cow milker during a power outage."

We'll miss laughing as Tom Brokaw attempts to say "The liberation of Sulaimany left locals leery of large lethal landmines." We may also long for the good old days, when Peter Jennings delivered lines with snobbish enunciations that gave Network News a lofty air of rude superiority over viewers, as if it were in the Hamptons dealing with panhandlers.

Heart warming piece...Check it out.

CBS, in all its incredulity, will continue to slide as all fingers point to fraud in the matter of the documents Rather still claims are real, but arrogance and agenda makes it impossible for them admit error.

Now would be an excellent time for Bernard Goldberg to hit the circuit once again to plug his best selling books, Bias and Arrogance. He should re-release them. They are probably more pertinent now than ever and were no doubt, prophetic.