Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.
I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
If there is anything good to be said about my particular line of work, it's that we get to tell people the news they need to hear, and to put it in context. To get to that - for one hour every night on the 'PBS NewsHour,' and for an additional half-hour every Friday night on 'Washington Week,' we have to slog through a lot of tough stuff.
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
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