You don't think much of television news these days. You think the viewers are being sold short. I'm deeply concerned about it. I think that there's a real problem in the United States.
Polls show that most people still get most of their news from television.
I claim that those who do are inadequately informed, too poorly informed to intelligently exercise their franchise at the polls. The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience. The owners of the networks today are not the old pioneer broadcasters who founded the networks, but these great entertainment conglomerates mostly dictated by Hollywood standards. They're going for the lowest common denominator.