"The Indianapolis Star today announced today its "newsroom of the future." It involves 15% fewer journalists than the newsroom of the present. The copy desk, those folks who make sure stories are readable, who catch a tremendous amount of mistakes and who generally make everything of higher quality, is being "dissolved." We're going to lose 5 of 11 photographers and other support staff. Some good middle managers who guide journalists young and old will be out of a job soon, too. What the paper is telling the public is that there will be 6 more reporters. And there will be. With beats like beverages, party crasher and holidays and observances. No, we are not making this up. Welcome to the future."Ouch!
With CBS' decision yesterday to drop its affiliation with WISH-TV and align with WTTV, we assume the current newsroom at WISH-TV will disappear unless the TV station's owners can come up with a novel approach for new, regularly-scheduled programming that will keep viewers tuning into Channel 3. Colts games will now be aired on WTTV's Channel 4 beginning next year when the change takes effect.
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Content poor, vain stream "journalism" is an inferior, defective product. Junk-journo is not investor or sponsor grade.
Attention & therefore dollars now go elsewhere; to select, online news sources & blogs.
In the slow learner, Dodo Bird category; Scar management has decided to double down on more non-investment grade failure. It must be an exciting prospect for fans of square pegs 'n round holes...
"With beats like beverages, party crasher and holidays and observances."
This fits The Star as the "Reporters" will be used to basically provide advertising for the "Hospitality" Industry. Hyped up articles to lure potential customers to carefully selected venues. The articles will be Propaganda to show off some Commercial Cow Pie Brown Corporate Branding, masking itself as Culture.
The media doesn't want you informed. They want you watching sports, reality television and state-dictated news so you'll reliably support the police, the military and Israel.
The news even reports on the happenings in the network's own reality television shows.
Buy an internet TV device, so you can watch RT and Al Jazeera. Those who claim Al Jazeera is a biased network have either never watched it, or they believe that merely reporting stories the U.S. media suppresses is bias.
The local section of The Star barely has any news. I'm surprised that Gannett didn't just announce that they'll transmit USA Today to all current customers. They have virtually gutted anything local already. No need for local reporters or columnists anymore with their type of journalism. -Of course, no need for customers, either.
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