Great insights as always from eaves, Allan, flu, Arraya, et al. I have also noticed the news is undergoing a complete dumbing down. There are precious few left with any journalism background and are now strictly somewhat pretty faces. Some of the folks on the local news do not know how to dress either (they don’t or I don’t). Their clothing looks more like what you would see at a bar, than on prime time. I have definitely seen them getting rid of the higher paid old timers like LeBeau and Levine recently. Local television news is hardly recognizable any more. I know it is money driven because some of the newly graduated will work for almost nothing for the chance to be on television. I used to be an avid reader of Time through the 80’s, but it grew thinner and weaker and I stopped subscribing. I thought it was starting to read more like People and less like the Time of old when the Man (or machine) of the year actually meant something. Thank God for the Internet. God help us if the government takes over and starts taxing it. Could there be a pirate Internet?
