Former NBC and CBS News correspondent Ed Rabel wrote in a 2013 Charleston (WV) Gazette opinion piece that the people in local TV news are “bubble-heads and glib, young,
sometimes pretty know-nothings” who “wouldn’t know a news story if it slapped them in the face.”Station owners and managers forbid their news departments from stepping on toes and ruffling feathers, out of fear that such stories might insult local advertisers or offend politicians on whose toes reporters might stomp. And investigative or original reporting is costly, meaning real reporters must be hired to do real reporting, a job that requires lots of time and money that the stations have no time for.
Sixteen months after his op-ed was published, Rabel announced he was running for Congress as an independent in West Virginia’s second Congressional District. WCHS-TVnews director Matt Snyder apparently wasn’t ready to forgive Rabel for his TV news criticism, and ordered his staff to ignore the former journalist’s campaign, according to the Morgan County USA website.
Thanks for proving his point
Young boys will often have pissing contests. That’s the media comment. The politics as usual comment is this:
Rather than trying to distance herself from Obama, Hillary should try distancing herself from the Republican Party. The neo-con, capitalist 1% Party. When your foreign policy sounds like John McCain said it first and your economic policy sounds like you copied it right out of Atlas Shrugged because Ayn Rand is a hero, than you “ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.” At least not with anyone to the Left of the T-bagger Party.
I really believe, instead of marching on City Hall, protests should direct themselves at the ‘Mouth(es) of Sauron’ themselves; propaganda purveyors like Fox and WCHS-TV.
WCHS should get its broadcast license yanked for 5 years.