Colors

LT pops off a good bit of media analysis by way of fresh comments from former Nightline host Ted Koppel, who laments the state of TV news these days. According to Koppel, it's not a red state or blue state bias that is driving the news these days but it's a color all right: green, The Color of Money.

LT adds his own thoughts: "Here, here. We recall a local news director once making what we thought was an appalling statement -- until we realized that that's how most news directors think. Said news director said -- and we're paraphrasing -- that he or she would rather give viewers what they wanted rather than what was deemed to be important to them.

"Sounds good if you're in a profit-making industry, but isn't journalism supposed to be about something more than making money? Aren't journalists supposed be raising the discourse, offering alternative views and showing audiences what it might not always want to see for the greater good?"

"That sort of idealism sounds quaint, we know -- we're cynics, too. But isn't still something worth striving for?"

Like the old Indian on the Keep America Beautiful ads, there's a tear rolling down my cheeck now because I agree.

Red, Blue and Green [Dashboard]