[kipperfan]

Originally Posted by MattyC

The point is that news should not be subject to the same standards as regular TV. It's not regular TV. It's not supposed to be for entertainment. I could care less if the guy telling me the news was the ugliest guy with the most boring voice in the world. As long as he's actually telling me the news.

I said I was done but can't let this go; this will be my last one in this thread though.

Whether you think that is the way "it should be" or whether you think "its not regular TV" the same standards do apply. TV, like all businesses is all money, to get money it's all about advertising, advertising is all about ratings and ratings are all about which station draws the most viewers.

When you have 5-10 stations doing the news, with the news being the exact same for everyone, these stations have realized if you don't develop your program for ratings it will not be watched, advertisers either won’t advertise or pay pennies on the dollar to do so and eventually the network has to fold/show has to come off the air/the anchor needs to be canned/etc. This is a simple capitalistic reality that "the news" and news channels are as much as part of as the 7-11 down the road is.