CJR Shocker: TV Viewers Want Actual Reporting
Columbia Journalism Review challenges everything producers thought about TV news:
The decade-long collaboration between the Project for Excellence in Journalism and several academics led by Wellesley College political scientist Marion Just concludes that the more local TV invests in quality reporting, the bigger its audience tends to be. Crime news and celebrity news, contrary to all popular and professional wisdom, they say, aren’t as appealing to TV viewers.
Yeah right. Next they’ll say that people want to get their news from brunettes. Pshaw.
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