From John Brummett’s fourth (and final?) column on the Choose Your News saga:
The teddy bear versus the tiger – yeah, that’s what it was.
As the audience member observed: I was making a reasonable argument about not trivializing news coverage and Fisher was making a reasonable argument about appealing to a lost modern audience. We thought we were engaging each other but actually we were talking through each other and getting caught in our own crossfire.
I was saying the television news show itself was not well-served by a reporter’s daily diversion to an obligatory piece that on-line voters had chosen. I was saying she was glorifying the new tools, the toys, the Web, rather than the 6 p.m. report.
Read it all here.
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