“The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.” PeopleWantNeedsWellsRealAudienceStruggleBuildingNewsWeaknessReactionsViewersCablesFast PacedReactingStripesUnsureBuilding SomethingBreaking NewsCable News Author:Ali Velshi
“I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.” PeopleCertainTelevisionTvsIndustryNewsPressureCarefulAspireTelevision News Author:Ali Velshi
