and today's prize for gross stupidity goes to . . .

[realthog]

. . . them doughty bean-counters at the infotainment channel CNN:

CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team

By Curtis Brainard

CNN, the Cable News Network, announced yesterday that it will cut its entire science, technology, and environment news staff, including Miles O’Brien, its chief technology and environment correspondent, as well as six executive producers.

“We want to integrate environmental, science and technology reporting into the general editorial structure rather than have a stand alone unit,” said CNN spokesperson Barbara Levin. “Now that the bulk of our environmental coverage is being offered through the Planet in Peril franchise, which is produced by the Anderson Cooper 360 program, there is no need for a separate unit.”

For more on this, see the report in Columbia Journalism Review. The BBC World News channel should, with luck, be a part of your cable/satellite tv package.

 

Comments

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

That's what gets me. I could understand giving Robin Meade a bit more time, but Wolf Blitzer always reminded me of that particularly dopy guy in high school journalism class who really couldn't write, couldn't conduct an interview to save his life, and who generally was so obnoxious and arrogant that even the movie and music critics wouldn't hang out with him, but who kept going regardless because he's certain that his detractors are all jealous. (Sorry: I went through high school journalism with a guy who was exactly that bad, and every time I see Blitzer, I thank Whomever's In Charge that Mark Miles didn't have the wherewithal to move into broadcast journalism.)

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"Wolf Blitzer always reminded me of that particularly dopy guy in high school journalism class who really couldn't write, couldn't conduct an interview to save his life, and who generally was so obnoxious and arrogant that even the movie and music critics wouldn't hang out with him, but who kept going regardless because he's certain that his detractors are all jealous"

That's him to a T!