It’s bad enough that all the major network’s evening newscasts are less than fifty percent news and fifty percent magazine pieces, usually of a medical nature. And you can take it as a given that the thirty minute program has ten minutes of ads and station promo’s in it. But what’s really starting to bug me is when I’m watching the Today show on NBC at eight in the morning and Brian Williams comes on and tells me what he’s going to be covering on “World News Tonight” some ten hours later. Listen Brian, if you already know at eight in the morning, it’s not going to be news tonight. Then they wonder why their ratings are going down. And paying Katie Couric a few billion dollars to move to CBS isn’t going to fix it. Maybe if the networks tried fresh, hot from the oven news, instead of all the medical stuff surounded by drug ads, they might postpone their demise a couple of years longer. 
Those were the days!
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