New Nightline: “Latest Example Of…Short-Attention-Span Theater”

The revamped Nightline is “the latest example of dumbing down journalism into short-attention-span theater in pursuit of an unreachable audience,” Sun-Sentinel columnist Tom Jicha writes.

More: “The Times Square studio is more a distraction than an asset. It is almost impossible not to have your attention wander to what it is happening behind McFadden. The Jimmy Kimmel Show, which follows Nightline, figured this out a while ago. A big-screen TV, which monitored activities on the streets outside Kimmel’s Hollywood Boulevard studio, was jettisoned.”

At the end of the column, Jicha refers to Ted Koppel’s sign-off, when he warned that if we don’t give the new program a chance, “you’ll be sorry.”

Jicha responds: “It is already safe to say, not so much.” More…