Monday, July 11, 2011

A young journalist implodes (or maybe he just quit)

This is what I'm talking about.

I couldn't possibly get behind a lot of what Kai Nagata has to say, or else I'd be ready to take my hat and go, too. But I understand. He's even younger than me, but to him the state of TV news is untenable, and in quitting with this very public dispatch, he's articulated what many of us might feel in our most cynical moments. Cynicism in this industry is peculiar because, as Nagata demonstrates, it runs hand in hand with a kind of idealism for what it could be.

A lot of good can come when someone with promise tips out the door so early, and so loudly, reminding us that the status quo is not mandatory. I hope a lot of people with pay grades higher than mine take his criticisms and at least ponder them a while.

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