Sam Donaldson Pronounces Network News Dead

Any chance of getting a diagnosis for that squashed ferret he wears on his head?

Anyway, network news' answer to Mr. Spock, except without all the charisma and human warmth, has some stuff to say about network news that I'd appreciate more if it weren't coming out of the mouth of an idiot:

"I think it's dead. Sorry," he said during a breakfast panel Tuesday at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas. "The monster anchors are through."

Donaldson, Ensign Chekov, and Yeoman Rand* also agreed bloggers were pretty f'n' cool:

The three also agreed that that Internet bloggers have had a generally positive impact on news because mainstream reporters are forced to better verify their information and pare opinions out of their work or face he wrath of scrutinizing critics.

Huh. Jeepers, and all along that's what I thought those "multiple layers of careful editorial fact-checking" were for.

Nope. It's on us. They've outsourced their fact-checking to unpaid retards like me whose idea of professional excellence is to land a job that keeps me well-stocked in Nina Hartley videos and Cheez Whiz.

* She's the one with all the jugs. All of them.

posted by Ace at 06:39 PM

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