David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Rather further stirs the pot
Dan Rather, post-CBS News, isn’t particularly bullish on the future of the network newscast. He backed off criticism of his replacement, Katie Couric – though he noted “the odds are longer now” as to whether she can succeed in the anchor’s chair – but offered a grim assessment of the network newscast in general.
“I think we’ll see the time when someone at the top (of a network) says, ‘We can give this (air) time back to affiliates,’” Rather declared.
With network news on the skids (except over at ABC) and newspapers gasping for air (key quote: “(C)apital markets (are) increasingly skeptical about the newspaper industry's ability to generate cash from operations”), are we looking at a future in which journalism – that solid, serious kind, with investigations into corporate and governmental corruption, not the kind tracking Victoria Beckham’s whereabouts – will be sporting a toe tag? Does our culture so devalue information that could save our lives, avert future crises and maintain a sense of fairness and justice in society that we’re simply --