Why Not Just Shoot Network TV and Get it Over With
What a long, long slide downhill it’s been from Walter Cronkite retiring with total domination of the nightly news, to Dan Rather eased-out with cable too dominant to compete with, news budgets all but gone and Network market-share in the dumper.
Somebody take CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox into the back pasture and shoot them.
Put these poor derelict remnants of government-in-broadcast out of their misery. Either that, or drive a stake through the heart of the FCC. What a long, long slide downhill it’s been from Walter Cronkite retiring with total domination of the nightly news, to Dan Rather eased-out with cable too dominant to compete with, news budgets all but gone and Network market-share in the dumper.
The TV most of us grew up with is an aging fighter, punch-drunk and staggering with one arm governmentally tied behind it, hoping to make it to another round. The match has long been lost, just please let us get off the ropes for one more round.
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