7/31/2023 0 Comments Mbc4 columbusThis doesn't help in terms of the quality and consistency (and ethical compass) local television news actually used to strive for. It devolved from the already atrocious "newsreader" versus "journalist" phenomenon that emerged in the 1980s. You get what you pay for, and when they pay isn't much you start to see a lot of people who entered the industry to become influencers rather than journalists. EVERYTHING but journalistic ethics is micromanaged and the money local television news people make goes far less than it did a decade ago. There's a reason why, "local television" has precious little local origination programming outside of token news broadcasts and why the industry is gambling foolishly on the antiquated models of carriage fees from cable and linear streamers (rather than local advertising, which used to account for 80-90% of income for stations) to keep them afloat. Viacom (CBS) \, Disney \** (ABC and FOX) and Univision \* ( \*= "O
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