A sad trend in tv news.
Submitted by TALPDX on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 5:29pm.

It seems that by any measure, CBS made the decision to fire seasoned journalists from its ranks based in part by age and I assume cost. Most on-air personalities trend younger and for a news gathering operation, this means cheaper. I’m sure this trend is reflected on the other side of the camera as well. In the case of at CBS 5 San Francisco, I’m familiar in part with the career of reporter Bill Schechner. Years ago on NBC, he co-anchored “Overnight”. It was a class program – extremely well written with highly respected storytellers at the helm. So clearly, given Bill Schechner’s reputation as a superb and highly literate reporter, it’s clear his ability to relay information to his viewers didn’t factor into the equation when firing him. I’m sure this is also the case in the others at CBS 5.

My hope is that television news doesn’t serve as an employment refuge for the young and inexpensive alone.

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