On May 3, 2:11 pm, (David Kaye) wrote:
As of Friday, ABC (the TV people, who also provide coverage to Citadel's
ABC
Radio network) laid off 1/3 of its workforce.

I could never understand why ABC had to have separate bureaus from their
O&O
stations. Now, I guess they won't. A 1/3 cut in staff is dramatic.
Even
Brian Rooney was let go. The NY Times reports that their London bureau
, which
covers much of Europe has gone from 100 people to about a dozen today.


I'm reading a story from a 1934 radio magazine when the networks began
building their news staffs. Prior to that time, the networks didn't
have much of a news presence. Newspapers hated the competition so much
that
they began de-listing the networks from their daily radio program listing
s.
There was actualy a time when newspapers dropped radio coverage except fo
r
their own stations if they had them. My how times have changed.

If they are just talking heads, well sad but maybe not the end of the
world. If they were actually doing journalism, then it is a loss.

You look at the women on Fox News and that Sex Pistols hit comes to
mind: We're so pretty, oh so pretty, pretty vacant.