MSNBC Should Strive For Transparency In News Process, Not “Pure Gimmick”

Following up on this post about MSNBC’s plan to take viewers inside the control room and show viewers the process of making the news:

“I think transparency is critical,” a veteran e-mailer writes. “But real transparency will take a new way of telling stories. Instead of showing us producers pushing buttons in a control room, Abrams should have his reporters write into their scripts more about the challenges and process of covering a story. Tell us what it’s like to be there, how you got there, what it smells like etc. Make it a journey (when appropriate) and leave in some outtakes that show a larger truth (someone closing a door on the reporter, or saying no comment, etc). That will be enlightening. What MSNBC is doing now is pure gimmick and it rings false.”