Los Angeles, CA —Television news has been a 60-year exercise in monkey see, monkey do plagiarism. Today’s TV executives are playing to the lowest common denominator.   The unproductive and ignorant seem to be the current TV news target audience.     Does this serve the sponsors that thrive on financially sound viewer’s buying power? Is this more about guiding the lame, dependent and ignorant to vote for the Liberal political ticket?   I have no doubt that’s too often the reality.   It’s not the number of viewers but rather their spending power that counts in the end.   How can anyone sell new cars to brain-dead and impoverished underachievers? TV news would have died long ago but for lucrative political ads during elections.   My recommendations? I will begin with the abuse of the Breaking News label.   Last night’s news is not breaking in the morning.   Are viewers so dumb they can be convinced yesterday’s news is breaking? ...

Los Angeles, CA —Before I share my thoughts I want you to see what a seemingly thoughtful journalist, Matt Waite has to say about the use of drones for Electronic News Gathering or ENG .  It’s important that you first watch his video presentation. My response is below the video. Okay, Waite made a really melodramatic example of anecdote from his reporting past to make a point.  It was a really unfair and simplistic overstatement of a highly unusual situation he once encountered.  Waite’s dramatic example is one we all can resolve by simply keeping enough distance between the drone and the grieving woman that Waite described. Only the most soulless bastard would dare to bring a buzzing drone into that poor woman’s face!  Additionally, Waite unleashed his little drone inside the theater where he’s speaking and the natural acoustics there exaggerated the multi-rotor drone’s noise substantially.    At 40 or 50 feet outdoors that noise is barely n...