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Re: TV news and newspapers vs. radio

Bob Nelson wrote:
 
> There's an article in today's Boston Globe saying that
> local TV news isn't being watched as much these days,
> and not as many people are buying copies of the Globe
> or Herald as before. The article had a few theories
> for this, one of them being that people are stuck in
> traffic more often... so maybe they're getting their
> news on the radio instead. (It was said that the ratings for Boston
> University's WBUR-FM, a news-heavy
> NPR station, have gone up 66 per cent.)

It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that WBUR actually runs =intelligent=
news, with much more news content than the media that are losing patrons. 
Could it be that people are actually gravitating to the quality?

Naaaaah! 

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