Remember how our television producer friend Brian Shields said of TV news, “It’s the same stories, told in the same way and the only things different from one station to another are the blonde and the graphics package”?
Well, he’s certainly right about the blonde part. Need proof? Here’s an informative (and hilarious) slideshow on the topic, from Slate.
(Via an e-mail from Kirk)
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Shields was just riffing off Thoreau:
“We may well be ashamed to tell what things we have read or heard in our day. I do not know why my news should be so trivial,—considering what one’s dreams and expectations are, why the developments should be so paltry. The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”