"Cameras are sometimes angled clumsily, or are ill-focused, or the sound is a little off. News pieces that are shot well often lack acceptable editing, or writing, or both."
Sound like a quote from one of my critiques of a KUJH-TV newscast? But noooooooo. This is from an article in SF Weekly (2006-04-12) describing the newscasts on KRON-TV in San Francisco (one of the nation's largest markets, obviously). KRON, once the NBC affilliate with an outstanding reputation in news, is now an also-ran independent that recently switched to one-person bands (mostly) -- the first major-market station to do so. (I might add, "and hopefully the last," but I'm sure it probably won't be.)
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