The morning show is simply “Here are the national stories you’ll see on the Today Show, but earlier!”sinklair wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:09 pm12 can put on 2and a half hours of news in early evening daypart.
5 can do an hour and a half of news starting at 5pm.
“Mid-Michigan Now”’s 6pm News has a half hour. So how much local news is in that half hour? After lots of commercials, weather and national news... that leaves about 7 minutes of actual news covering Flint. On a good day, we might send a photographer up to Saginaw-Bay City-Midland. Unless it literally blows up, don’t even consider pitching a story in one of the other dozen counties that the FCC says we’re responsible for covering.
The failed news leadership that was in place when Barrington Broadcasting was running WEYI into the ground now is going back to the old playbook. Our morning and afternoon news meetings go like this... anyone have a story idea? No? OK, let’s go and do stories that 12, 5, M-Live have done. Instead of actually looking into real news, let’s go get fluff community events. We still have 25 minutes to fill? Let’s run more biased corporate news reports. When we’re done let’s pretend that was actual journalism and not upset the in over her head news director who won’t stand up for the news team to the GM and “Assistant GM”.
Leslie Toldo, who looked like she was in a black sweatsuit this morning, is like a male version of Michael Moore.