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After some 20 years here with CBS news and all-news broadcasting in Washington, I am now selling all-news WAVA to move on into new fields of journalism and public affairs. I am moving into a new home in beautiful Fauquier County where the air is clean and clear for all things—breathing, dreaming and speaking. But from the experience I have a few thoughts on the shape of broadcasting and broadcast journalism.
THE VAST WASTELAND
Many will remember FCC Chairman Newton Minow’s much publicized reference to television 15 years ago as a “vast wasteland.” He was right about that then and, while we can be proud of the occasional rays of brilliance in broadcast news and specials, he would be right about that today. Television programming continues to sink toward the lower common denominators of the public taste.
And even as television has replaced radio as the nation’s principal live entertainment medium, radio has made a shotgun marriage to become essentially the promotional loudspeaker of the record industry.
Going across the radio dial today, from classical to rock music stations, modern radio can be measured as little better than a glorified jukebox, spitting out just so
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