Those RVs are expensive. So is satellite time. It's the same with the networks. After slashing their ranks of reporters to meet the bottom line, live telecasts from the field that can be beamed everywhere throughout the globe ads zest, producers believe, to their shows, so they, too, can have bigger ratings to charge more dollars per minute. Pack journalism of the worse kind follows.
Reporters interview other reporters.
Each stand-upper sounds the same, because each reporter is looking over the other's shoulder. That's why a Bonner County child welfare case gets reported in the London Times. We'll never know. And that's really the way it is. Dave Turner is co-editor of the Priest River Times.