“I feel sorry for kids today,” the late Red Auerbach once observed. “When I was a kid we had heroes; today kids have celebrities, and there’s a big difference. We used to admire performance. We used to admire class. Now we applaud glibness. Now we admire flair.”Those couple of paragraphs are from an article in the Boston Herald "Natalie blazed trail with poise" on the retirement of long-time WCVB-Boston (ABC affiliate) anchor Natalie Jacobson.That’s TV news in a nutshell, with its dazzling graphics, mawkish scripts and endless supply of Ken & Barbie reporters. Please. What good are straight teeth and gorgeous hair if you can’t pronounce Worcester, and how important is a pretty face if it’s wrapped around a vacuum where the brain ought to be?
I thought that Herald columnist Joe Fitzgerald did a great job of summing up television news today, as he says, "in a nutshell."
In looking at the amount of airtime that's been devote to someone like Paris Hilton, it's a little disgusting. She's done nothing and yet she's a celebrity. No one would use the words "class" or "performance" to describe Paris... she's definitely more in with the "flair" and "glib" crowd.
This can't be good.
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