Missing the Point by Light Years
Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 8:56pm.

The sheer stupidity displayed by this person's comments points directly to the very reason for the demise of television news - not that TV news ever had very far to fall in the first place.

Product placement will speed up the rotting process, boring out credibility and destroying viewer confidence. Once the decay starts, there is almost nothing to be done to stop it. The worst part is the guilt-by-association syndrome. Even if only Channel 12 is doing product placement, the damage flows to all the other local stations in short order.

So, while Mr. Moron here is defending product placement as being acceptable due to deteriorating economic conditions in the broadcasting business, his simplistic analysis fails to point out that the mere act of product placement will send local TV news plummeting faster and deeper into the abyss of hollowed-out insignificance. Just see how hard it will be to sell air time on a station with that reputation, you dolt.

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