How is This Allowed?
/Of all the changes that have happened to TV news over the years, this is one of the most disturbing.
If used to be, if you worked in the newsroom, you did not sell, pitch or endorse products. It was a line that no one in TV news ever crossed and it was taken very seriously.
But now, that line has been obliterated completely.
Check out these post from KTLA Meteorologist Liberté Chan:
When did TV news people become Kardashians?
Also, how do the bosses let this stuff go on?
Let’s face it, Journalism is under a pretty powerful microscope right now and having the people on your newscasts in a towel on the edge of the bathtub hawking bubble bath is doing nothing to help.
I think Journalists need to make a choice between covering news or being an influencer?
Just saying….