It wasn't the fault of Winslow, but for all the good intentions, what she and her team were mostly offering the last four years was some analysis and lots of high-sounding talk - blue smoke and mirrors instead of original reporting. They could shuffle the anchors, and move Lehrer finally toward retirement all they wanted the problems ran far, far deeper than that. Some nights, when they tried to re-purpose a piece that had run previously by giving a new introduction, it was just plain embarrassing. Forget the world, they couldn't cover stories down the street in Washington on their own most nights.
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In fact, I held off saying it for some four years out of, if truth be told, probably affection and even prejudice for the values Lehrer and Winslow tried to represent in TV news and journalism.Īfter a couple of months of closely watching the show following that 2009 piece, I became convinced Winslow no longer had anything close to the horses needed to do a real newscast. "I remember having a staff meeting last May, which was the first I've ever had to have, to explain to people that we were freezing salaries and eliminating the company contribution to the 401(k) plan, and travel was going to be something they needed six signatures to certify that it was absolutely necessary." "The NewsHour started feeling this incredible financial pinch exactly a year ago," Winslow says. And yet, she, Lehrer and their team of journalists and technicians have just come through their hardest year ever in terms of funding. As financial and technological pressures radically alter the landscape of commercial TV news providers, the NewsHour becomes more important than ever as a source of information that citizens can trust. Linda Winslow, executive producer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, is one of the producers trying to do more with less. in Baltimore for the annual PBS Showcase conference, they face what could be the most challenging time in the history of American public broadcasting. And Twitter erupted with outrage.As programmers and public broadcasting executives from across the country come together. So, right about the time it was too foggy for anyone to see clearly, PBS inserted old footage of much better looking fireworks. "Visibility dropped from 6 miles near 9 p.m. "Drizzle and fog were reported at Washington's Reagan National Airport Monday evening," meteorologist Chris Dolce said. (MORE: Here's What the Weather Was Like When the U.S. It all started when the second half of the display began to look suspiciously perfect, the Washington Post reported. But that didn't get past the locals in Washington D.C., who called the station out on Twitter for their misleading program. In the midst of a cloudy, foggy fireworks display, PBS supplemented their "A Capitol Fourth" program with stock footage of fireworks from years past. But last night, PBS considered their patriotic duty and decided to do something that not everyone approved of. Add the chance for rain into the forecast and spirits seem to automatically dampen. (Shawn Thew/AFP/Getty Images) It just doesn't feel like the Fourth of July without a big, bright fireworks display. This is NOT what it looked like at the National Mall last night.
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