What the Heck is Going On at Today's TMJ4 News?
Mike Gousha is leaving Channel 4 in Milwaukee after more 25 years on the air. While his departure is of his own volition, it follows a year where veterans like Kimberly Kane, Scott Friedman, Kevin Hunt and Jim Ott have either voluntarily or reluctantly been shown the door.
When they kicked Mike Miller to the curb, it should have been a warning to all of us that their 'vision' for the news operation had changed.
What was once the most respected television news operation in Milwaukee has been dealt a series of mostly self inflicted blows over the last several months.
Their emphasis on fluff, tagging everything as BREAKING NEWS and the influx of inexperienced reporters, many new to Wisconsin, is indicative of a lack of respect to their long-time viewers.
Gousha has been a fixture in Milwaukee. Beyond his anchoring duties, his Sunday Night show was always informative and insightful. His departure is a huge loss to WTMJ.
It's becoming more clear by the day that TODAY's TMJ4 is nothing like yesterday's Channel 4. You know, the one people used to turn to in droves for the news that mattered.
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Perhaps the viewers have decided that the real news is what they get on Comedy Central from Stewart and Colbert.
Truthiness rules!
I think Mark Belling ought to be their new anchor.
He left a huge paycheck, too. Goes to show you how hard it is to stomach sitting there and introducing the 13th story on how to rid your legs of those unsightly vericose veins....
Or..."In tonight's special assignment, a reporter pretends to be a cop pretending to be a little girl, our cameras catch sickos preying on our kids...but do so in a way that the evidence isn't admissible in court, so the sicko walks...Carole?"
the ridiculous so called "investigative" stories coming out of tmj4 recently sealed the deal for me as a viewer (Mercure chasing some poor shlub of a doctor around a parking lot with a microphone to "expose" him as a degenerate drug addict took the cake) and probably sealed the deal for Mr. Gousha too.
I used to watch Channel 4 faithfully since they had "serious" news to report. Now appears they want to "FOX News" themselves. Don't know who they think is watching their 10 o'clock report for "breaking news" and John Mercure's ridiculous stunts. We've found solace in the brilliant "Daily Show" and "Colbert Report," on cable at the same time. Can't get enough of Jon and Stephen.
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