Brian Lowry nudges Geraldo Rivera for his “flaccid interviewing style in Thursday’s Variety.
“There will always be room for this sort of populist poppycock,” he says, but: “The more serious risk here is that these tabloid concoctions have a deleterious effect on more traditional news venues, which are wrestling with their own schemes to reel in younger viewers. If ‘Geraldo’ actually boosts tune-in (and Monday’s premiere numbers were respectable, if unspectacular), let’s hope the ‘CBS Evening News,’ say, doesn’t descend along a similar path.” More…
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