Turn Off The TV’s & Cancel The NYT

The three network evening newscasts “devote roughly the same amount of time to the same set of stories,” Dan Bobkoff sighs in a column for Public Eye. He thinks the shows “should try to become as different from one another as possible.”

Step one: Turn off all the TV’s in the newsroom. Step two: Cancel their subscriptions to The New York Times. “With nothing to copy off the TV or from the papers, the newscasts then could think about broadening what they cover. They’ve all fallen into a habit of covering only certain places and issues. I think each show should strive to feature at least one truly original story a night,” Bobkoff writes. The nets would argue that they’re doing that — by establishing investigative units, for instance. But it’s obviously not enough. (Via Romenesko)