Broadcasters Afraid of Dying Like Newspapers > Want to revitalize print, radio, and TV.. fix the content.

said by n2ubp:

The large corporations think they can shovel the cheapest crud at us and we will gobble it up and ask for more. My local newspaper, which should carry local news, does poorly covering most local stories, fills in white spaces with 2 and 3 day old AP stories, fires skilled reporters, replacing them with unpaid interns, the newspaper "boy" uses the area around my mailbox as an ash tray, and they wonder why home delivery subs are dropping. Most radio programming lacks any originality, being sourced from national satellite feeds, all stations in the network carrying the same one sided tripe.
Cable TV channels carry decade or older OTA network reruns rather than unique programming related to the supposed theme of the program. DirecTV thinks everyone wants premium sports, and those that don't are happy to stare at home shopping channels, preachers, and infomercials.
OTA digital TV sub channels contain preachers looking for money in 3 different languages, infomercials, and plain crap. We have lots of choices, but too many of those choices are sub par. I know understand why TIVO like recorders are so popular, snatching the one or two good shows found in a weeks time. Too much crap.