Former NBC News Reporter Lisa Myers: Television Journalism Is Deteriorating

Lisa Myers, an NBC News veteran who retired in 2014, is scheduled to give a speech in Des Moines about her career in television. And her diagnosis of the industry as it currently stands is, shall we say, unflattering.

“I am going to talk about the deterioration in the quality of journalism you see on TV,” she told the Des Moines Register. “There is less and less interest in network television today holding the White House or any other part of government accountable. I fear there is a calculation that the audiences they are trying to reach don’t care that much about the serious news. I think most of the political coverage these days has all the depth of Twitter.”

Full article: TV News Deteriorating
h/t Tim O'Leary
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  1. LEJ's Louisiana March 14, 2015 at 2:33 PM

    Hey, who was telling America that Dick Nixon extended the war in Vietnam by telling the North he would give them a better settlement than LBJ. They kept it going killing how many more Americans and Vietnamese? The rust was showing in your day, Sister! We are all sinners. www.LEJ.org

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