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Westin: 2010 ABC News Bloodbath Necessary

DToTheJ said:
Remember in late 2010 when ABC News had to lay off a quarter of its workforce?

The man who made those cuts at the time, David Westin, says it had to be done to "ensure its ongoing financial health."

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ar..._Symptom_of_Deeply_Troubled_News_Industry.php
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Yet I've noticed a number of "new faces" on ABC News. When major companies decided to 'clean house' they normally get rid of highly-paid personnel and eventually replace them with people willing to work for less money.

Speaking of 'bloodbath', remember what happened at CNN years ago when the network fired most of the original anchors and reporters who helped launch that network in order to be able to afford the likes of Larry King, Paula Zahn, and Connie Chung. That worked out real well for CNN didn't it?
Zahn has worked for almost every news network on television, while Chung seems to have disappeared from the airwaves. Maybe she's home counting her money ::)
 
Mark_Giardina said:
Yet I've noticed a number of "new faces" on ABC News. When major companies decided to 'clean house' they normally get rid of highly-paid personnel and eventually replace them with people willing to work for less money.

Speaking of 'bloodbath', remember what happened at CNN years ago when the network fired most of the original anchors and reporters who helped launch that network in order to be able to afford the likes of Larry King, Paula Zahn, and Connie Chung. That worked out real well for CNN didn't it?
Zahn has worked for almost every news network on television, while Chung seems to have disappeared from the airwaves. Maybe she's home counting her money ::)
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Lawrence Zeiger (Larry King) came to CNN in 1985, Paula Zahn came in 2001, and Connie Chung came in 2002.
 
Yes, because we all know Lara "Choose My Outfit Online at TheInsider.com" Spencer is walking in the same footsteps as Harry Reasoner did years ago with her hard news coverage of the latest shoe trends and celebrity news ::).

I can barely watch ABC News with a straight face any longer. While CBS was covering the Libya situation yesterday as their top story, somehow ABC, which has their main newscast named World News, was rehashing once again that it's so danged hard to get through airport security as a top story and had an investigative report about it. The cuts may have saved the organization financially, but at the cost of losing all the prestige and respect it earned during the Arledge/Jennings era as they go after cheap celebrity and human interest stories over hard news.
 
I was a regular viewer of "Nightline" for several years after Ted Koppel retired. But early last year (when they shortened from 30 to 25 minutes) I noticed that they were doing a lot more tabloid and bizzaro stories. Now I mostly watch "Colbert Report," which at least doesn't pretend to be serious.

I only very rarely watch the 6:30/5:30 newscasts because of the fact that I'm not usually home at that hour. But I prefer CBS
 
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