To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
It is impossible to fully express how much I respect the people of 'NBC News.'
There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.
I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.
I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
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