A description of "News" programming on television, from a 1970s-era "McCloud" episode on a rerun channel:
| "Ten headlines, twenty commercials, and a semi-literate weather girl!" |
Nowadays the weather person is more sophisticated, but the headline-to-commercial ratio has fallen even further—and there's still little or nothing beyond the headlines.
(cf. EssentialNewspaper (2005-03-24), ...) - ^z - 2008-10-31