Ask Yourself One Question

There are those who think I’m crazy.  There have always been those who thought I was crazy.  There are those who believe that it’s lunacy for me to really report news that goes right to the core of your values and those issues that truly affect your successes and those of your family.  Our increase in news over the next two years, that is, an hour of news at 7 PM, an hour of news at 3 PM, and an additional hour of news sometime between 11 AM and 3 PM, is using a sledge- hammer to drive in a tack.  It’s my belief that even the sledge-hammer won’t give you enough information to successfully plan the next year of your life, let alone the next 20 years of your life.  Ask yourself one question:  Am I going to have enough money to feed my self and my family when I can no longer work past 55 or 65, but I’m likely to live to be 85?

News With Substance

Substantive news:  news that’s more than an inch deep and 4 miles wide; news that really affects your life; news about more than whose house burned down, who was shot during a fight, and which politician is on the take.  I call it news with substance.  And I don’t see a lot of it on television.  I may be making a big mistake in believing that the public understands that present news coverage of nearly all events that really do affect our lives is so shallow that it is of no importance.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

When we ceased broadcasting Judge Judy, a television show that I find repulsive and an insult to the legal problems of this country, I got calls from many people protesting my decision.  I was both amused and shocked by the response.  But after some consideration, it began to trouble me greatly that the Judge Judy solutions seemed to be the guide for solving all of our problems.  I believe that if you think the Judge Judy and her approach is the one that all of us should use as our guide to success, then we’re all in big, big trouble.

August 27, 2013

I’m told by some (not by all) that there simply isn’t enough news or written analysis that’s worthy of broadcasting to require more than local newspapers and local television stations to produce now.  It’s my belief that those who hold this belief have either given up on trying to direct and influence the economic and intellectual policies of this country, or that they simply have no understanding of what’s going on around them.  Whatever the reason, people had better begin to be engaged in the direction their government’s going, or the first thing they’ll know is that they’re falling off a cliff.

Sampling

Sampling may work in buying cookies, ice cream, vegetables and automobiles, but sampling of the news does not work as a guide to what’s happening in the rest of the world.  Americans have become samplers in everything they do, and sampling is not working to help the public know what policies to support that come from each of the two major political parties.

Net Worth

If your present situation in this economy is such that you’re not in the top 5% of the wealthy in this country, you’d better start looking to find out what, if anything, you can do to ensure that your standard of living when you retire will be sustained and supported by the assets you then have.  If 60% of Americans have no net worth, I will bet that in ten years that percentage will rise to 85% — Not a very good outlook.

Information

For those of you who sincerely believe there is barely enough news to fill 3 half hour television broadcasts each day, let me say this to you.  Your desire to get to the sitcoms and the game shows has become so voracious that you don’t even bother to learn about the financial piranhas that are consuming your house and eating your money and preventing your retirement when you thought you’d have a few bucks in the bank to live on.  It’s our intention, because we have the ability to communicate with 97% of you, to provide you with some semblance of information that will help ensure your economic future.  News to us is not limited to rape, robbery and mayhem, which in reality affects very few of you.  We believe news should educate you so that when you get to the end of the road you will not find there is no place for you to sleep, eat or simply enjoy life.