{"id":492,"date":"2007-07-19T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2007-12-08T22:31:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T05:19:16","slug":"jeff-wald-leaves-ktla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Wald Leaves KTLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Bellman writes LAObserved.com<\/a>: "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."<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

The only reason I ever lower myself to appear on TV is to meet girls.<\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t