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1) When the reporter writes his own story, he's told to write it in a certain way. If he doesn't, he gets his ass reamed by the ND. If he still doesn't, he gets fired.
2) Reporters don't necessarilly have editorial control over the stories they do.
3) Every reporter out there worth anything hates the way the profession has gone, and wishes we could go back to the old days when news was a prestige-garnering loss-leader for the station. In those days, news had a good budget, and it was not expected to show a profit. It was expected to be the best news it could be so the station would look good, and the money lost on news would be made up for by people watching other programs on that station. Then someone figured out you can make money off of news, and it's been downhill from there.
My objection is not to your observation that news is by and large crap, because it is. My objection is that you came straight out and said it was the reporters' fault. Reporters are the low man on the totem pole, which is unfortunate because many of us do NOT want the news profession to be where it is right now.
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