Word: networking
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Many CBS insiders concede that inefficiencies do exist. The network's news budget has grown almost 250% in just nine years, and even allowing for inflation it is hard to argue that the quality and amount of coverage have proportionately increased. With limited broadcast time available, many CBS correspondents are underutilized. Some staffers noted wryly that Pappas got more airtime after being fired than before. "Who is really going to miss the Seattle bureau?" asks a veteran CBS correspondent. Stories in that area will now be handled by the Los Angeles bureau. Other bureaus will similarly pick up the slack...
...badly," says Evening News Executive Producer Tom Bettag. "What you're going to lose is a reporter on the scene when you wish you had a reporter on the scene. You cannot have less original reporting and not have the quality suffer." CBS, like both of its belt-tightening network rivals, will probably depend more often on footage from other sources, such as local stations and syndicated services. Indeed, Rather has already begun narrating more stories on the CBS Evening News, stories that might earlier have been handled by a reporter in the field...
...damage may be worse on other programs, since the Evening News and the network's second showcase, 60 Minutes, were relatively lightly hit. The CBS Morning News, for instance, lost 28 of about 75 positions; as a result, viewers will probably see less original material and more warmed-over stories from the previous night's news. Other cuts (29 of 71 positions were eliminated in the archives department, for example) will have a subtler impact. "When you have diminished resources for research and for library footage, you go with a less polished production editorially," says one producer. "That...
...behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last year mob leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City were jailed for skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos...
After a painful round of layoffs, CBS News staffers debate whether the network has just trimmed fat or done itself serious harm...