Since David Muir has taken over, you can chart how things have shifted, seeming narcissistically to feature more and more of Muir.
He eats up the first two or three minutes doing nothing but summarizing -- sometimes more than once -- news stories you're going to watch, to the degree that he often literally reports the same thing. (You can switch channels and they're already actually reporting.) Then he's got to interject himself into the news story again by interviewing the correspondent.
If you break down the 18 or 19 minutes of news in between the insufferable and repetitious commercials for pharmaceuticals and home products, there's very little content here anymore. They hit a couple of major events, then do a long segment on the weather, and then wrap it up with some saccharine feel good story about some suburban white kid who had a lemonade stand or something.
And Muir himself is harder to follow, from his weird haircut (I thought Jimmy Fallon was the goofiest on TV in this regard) to his sticky lips that the microphone picks up and makes disgusting.
The glory days where the news was done by thoughtful anchors and the content was rich are long gone. This is more like Muir's blog come to life.
He eats up the first two or three minutes doing nothing but summarizing -- sometimes more than once -- news stories you're going to watch, to the degree that he often literally reports the same thing. (You can switch channels and they're already actually reporting.) Then he's got to interject himself into the news story again by interviewing the correspondent.
If you break down the 18 or 19 minutes of news in between the insufferable and repetitious commercials for pharmaceuticals and home products, there's very little content here anymore. They hit a couple of major events, then do a long segment on the weather, and then wrap it up with some saccharine feel good story about some suburban white kid who had a lemonade stand or something.
And Muir himself is harder to follow, from his weird haircut (I thought Jimmy Fallon was the goofiest on TV in this regard) to his sticky lips that the microphone picks up and makes disgusting.
The glory days where the news was done by thoughtful anchors and the content was rich are long gone. This is more like Muir's blog come to life.