The Death Of News

Take A Listen. Take A Look. Don't Tell Us What To Do.

Reporters and anchors love to try to save us from ourselves and they love to tell us what to do. But that's not their job. You'd think it IS their job based on the examples they give us in this edition of The Death Of News.

What CBS News Learned & A Local Radio Station Has Parrots

Radio and TV anchors don't need to tell us what they've learned. And it's never necessary to say the same thing twice back-to-back.

Shutdown Details A Little Off

KTLA gets the details of the October 1st government shutdown wrong; Fox 11 uses cliches and reports on stuff that didn't happen.

Listen To Your Story

Reporters need to pay attention to what they write after they do an interview; it wouldn't hurt anchors to cut back on the cliches; and everybody needs get the words right.

A Pair Of MOS Interviews That Shouldn't Have Been

Uh oh. One LA TV news anchor breaches a basic rule of journalism and convicts Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Using only percentages to tell crime stat stories can be misleading. Two tents of an inch of rain ain't nothin' for the LA River. And, the rain stops...redundantly.