And The Columbia Journalism Review published a report with suggestions for saving the media (though I'm not sure there aren't some who would like to see all of us die off). Among other things, the report proposed encouraging...or requiring...Public Television stations to cover and report local news....basically filling the some of the void being created by the cuts in newspapers.
Would love to see the return of "For the Record!"
ReplyDeleteI'll attempt to refrain from bad-mouthing APTV.
ReplyDeleteOh, forget it!
They suck, now that you're gone!
Seriously...
They've squandered (pissed) away a heritage that BELONGS to the people of Alabama!
We the people of the State of Alabama own that network!
Once, they were award winners.
Now... the only award they'd win is dead last place in a stinking-dead-dog contest.
Used to watch FTR regularly! That'd be Monday - Friday. We knew what was going on in the legislature and in the state. It was Alabama's ONLY STATE WIDE NEWS PROGRAM!! (How much more of a corner on a market can you get?!)
Then, I'd watch the other shows that came on afterwards - This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, Antiques Roadshow, This Old House Workshop, and then the "Brit-Coms," and other shows - Dean Johnson & Robin Hartl of Hometime, Julia Child, National Geographic Explorer, Nova, Bill Moyers, Tavis Smiley, Outdoor Alabama... and an entire slew of good programming.
And better than that... I told others and watched it with them! Yep... I "evangelized." Got a bunch of converts too!
Now, I don't watch a dog-gone thing. Not even the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. And I don't hesitate to tell 'em NOT to watch!
Hellfire and damnation! There's nothing worth watching on the whole damn network!
Tim, we miss you ol' buddy!
And I've made my opinion known to the folks at APTV - and the AETV Commission/Board of Directors - about their poor and misguided decision and their equally poor and misguided Executive (Mis)Director cum-CEO Allan Pizzato.
(Don't get me started...)
Oh yeah... I forgot to mention Austin City Limits.
ReplyDelete... and the colloquialism "rat bastard."
For some strange reason, the term came to mind when I thought of Pizzato.
You know how it is... some phrases and terms are not in the category of one's regular, or even "special" (and therefore infrequent) use.
But on rare occasions, words and phrases will come to mind that seem suitable for, and indeed rise to the occasion.
Such is the present case.