11-24-2008, 02:27 PM
Gutenberg wrote:
This may sound odd coming from someone in the news business, but here goes: We don't need 24-hour news service every day. What we need is time to sleep on it. In ordinary circumstances we need the morning news, the evening news and C-Span, not a bunch of people beating their gums about something they haven't had time to wrap their minds around, or worse, blowing a small event out of all proportion. For news like Election Night or tragedies like the bombing of the World Trade Center, by all means keep going. But most of the time, give us a test pattern. Spare us all the manufactured news like the latest pretty blonde to disappear, or Terri Schiavo, or Wars on Christmas.
:agree: