This CBS thing is annoying because people behave as if a news organization is supposed to revolve around whatever leadership was there previously, and it doesn't work that way. When I was at the Dallas Morning News, the editor of the editorial department retired. cont...
Being historic does not mean the business around it is healthy, and being a "legendary" correspondent does not mean the talent owns the institution. Scott Pelley is not 60 Minutes. He works for 60 Minutes.
Staff should have enough humility to know the show is bigger than them, especially when the business is trying to pivot to survive.
Yet again, the preening self-importance of these people is matched only by the total lack of self-awareness. The journalism they have done for decades has steadily lost the trust of most Americans. And they think those sent to change it are the problem?
Never let D.C. and NYC journalists ever tell you they don't want to or like being "the story."
They LOVE being the story.
They are the heroes of their own tall tales while many of us are just NPCs
@matt86547114@schenn4jvr@DylanByers@PuckNews I don’t understand why this is so hard to understand. News is a business. It needs eyes. Advertising has collapsed. Over the air has collapsed. News is cheap to make, yes, but that cheapness has finally caught up to television. The only way to survive is to adapt or cut costs.
@matt86547114@schenn4jvr@DylanByers@PuckNews You’re so off on this it’s hilarious. You think 60 Minutes costs nothing to produce? Yah they pulled in $80 million, that’s down from $123 million in 2012. They’re a huge line item in the news budget. No smart business person is going to say, that’s fine keep losing revenue.
@GShih5@DylanByers@PuckNews Do learn how to read a ratings chart before showing how little you know about this.
CBS News was around a 7.1 household rating in 2000. Today, it’s roughly around a 1.2–1.3 rating depending on the week.
@ElceePlaysCiv@murphdogg29@DylanByers@PuckNews And its viewership is down over 60%. What part of that’s not sustainable for business do you not understand? 1 million views on their YouTube channel does not make them the same amount of money as 1 million views on WCBS. They’re a business. They’re supposed to make money.
@getrealTim@DylanByers@PuckNews Yah and that’s why networks are trying to build their own platforms because Netflix, Apple TV and YouTube are pulling eyeballs off their product. You literally just made my point.
@matt86547114@schenn4jvr@DylanByers@PuckNews Yah it’s called business. A top 10 show with shrinking audience. You can be top 10 all you want but when you hemorrhage audience and the digital ad revenue doesn’t make up for legacy revenue something has to change. Literally the same thing that happened to newspapers.
@matt86547114@schenn4jvr@DylanByers@PuckNews I’m not ignoring it but it’s irrelevant at this point. There’s always churn when product changes are made. Listen, I’m no fan of an opinion page person running a newsroom but we can’t ignore the economics of news playing out here. Odds are extremely high they fold.
@usappa00@DylanByers@PuckNews If you think streaming makes up for over the air legacy advertising then I have some ocean side property in Kansas to sell you.
@Gisele_ShoeSmug@DylanByers@PuckNews It’s called Neilson ratings and no. The Tiffany Network’s collapse is monumental is size and scope. It’s not hyperbole saying nobody watches them anymore.
@schenn4jvr@DylanByers@PuckNews All newsrooms need to make money, even NPR knows that (hence yesterday’s layoffs). You know how news makes money? People. You need fucking people watching. Digital ads don’t cut it moron. You need eyeballs on your legacy product to support a newsroom of that size.