Joel Bellman writes LAObserved.com: "As long as I’ve known Jeff Wald – going back nearly 25 years now, soon after I started my own broadcasting career – he has functioned as the conscience of the business, the role model for a conscientious and responsible news executive in a industry where increasingly all the financial and professional incentives drive newsroom decision-making in a suicidal race to the bottom. He’s been an unfailingly courteous, decent and serious guy in an industry that could be most charitably described as alarmingly deficient in those qualities."
Describing a television news director as "the conscience of the business" is like describing a pimp as "the conscience of the business." In two minutes, the average person can get more and better information from reading a good blog or newspaper than he can get from an hour of TV news. TV is for morons. It relies on exciting pictures not groundbreaking journalism. TV news provides a distorted view of the world because it can only report on stuff where there’s good video. Thus it is a sucker for staged photo-ops. TV news, like prostitution and pornography, can not be cleaned up because definitionally it relies upon feeding the baser instincts. By contrast, I blog to elevate the human condition. Families can return home from a day spent working/studying/praying and receive from my blog the most profound insights on the eternal struggle between good and evil.
The only reason I ever lower myself to appear on TV is to meet girls.
