Septuagenarian fired (1998) ABC News correspondent now college professor Bob Zelnick has been buried in academia too long. Bob's quoted in an LA Times Matea Gold piece typecasting Comcast's limited news chops with a failed news and public affairs channel: "If you consider NBC and CBS and ABC the major leagues and CNN and Fox triple-A, then this was A-ball or maybe B-ball."
Uh, Bob, CNN, which recently logged seven consecutive nights in fourth place primetime, is more like B-ball. Permit me to school you, Bob. And may I suggest you lose the vintage baseball analogies. I direct your attention to the above chart. Fox is number three behind CBS and ABC. TVBytheNumbers Bill Gorman observes Fox is up; ABC, CBS, NBC "mostly down."
If you really meant Fox News cable network, comparing Fox News to CNN is like comparing Barbra Streisand to Susan Boyle. December 8th cable news ratings
Bob, you've been out of the game too long.
Proving he is not exactly on top of his game -- Zelnick talks about "B-ball."
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia...Baseball did away with that designation in 1963!
Nowadays, Bob, they have Triple-A, Double A, Single A, and various other versions of A-ball...but B-Ball? Not so much.
Hey - I think he has it backwards - isn't Fox the majors now and ABC, CBS are A ball.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if there is no B-ball, CNN is still B ball
ReplyDeleteRatings don't necessarily translate into good journalism, nor vice versa. Indeed, these days, it's often an inverse relationship.
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