Toluse Olorunnipa of the Miami Herald writes Saturday about the changes that were made to the PBS show “Nightly Business Report” at the beginning of the year, noting some viewers are upset with the changes.
“NBR’s production team said the revised look and format are part of an attempt to make Nightly Business Report more useful for the 21st Century viewer, since most people no longer have to wait until dinnertime to learn what had happened in the stock market on a particular day.
“‘We wanted to create a program that was as relevant to today’s audience as the program was relevant to the audience that began with the program back in 1979,’ said Rodney Ward, the show’s executive producer. ‘We wanted to do a program that focused more on the analysis rather than just the facts and give people the `why’ of what happened.’
“The new show features longer interviews with economists and political leaders, more commentators fleshing out the details of economic data and the extension of analytical series like ‘Climate Economy,’ which looks at how businesses are dealing with climate change.”
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I too am shocked by the degree to which NBR has fallen in quality.
The loss of Stephanie Dhue, Jeff Yastine and the others, not to mention the irreplaceable Paul Kangas, has eviscerated the program.
Paul was a real "market man", he knew the stock market and the concerns of the individual investors who watched NBR come hail, hurricane, blizzard or tornado. Today, I would rather watch my cat sleep than listen to poor Tom Hudson pretend to know anything about stocks. He is no "market man". He is forced to display his vapid personality as he engages in a poltroonish performance waving his hands at things that aren't there. Poor devil.
I've tried to watch this horrid remnant of what was once a fine program but find that I cannot. I've have grown really tired of having to have my finger on the "mute" button to avoid having to listen to the odious music played to fill up the mostly empty show so as to get sooner to the end of the misery.
Strikingly unlike the kinds of guests Paul Kangas had, current NBR guests resemble blow-dried and air-headed weather people. They speak in clichés, tautologies and platitudes. None are “market men” or “market women””.
In the 1960's, pop-singer Joni Mitchell lamented that "don't it always seem that you don't know what you got till it's gone; they paved Paradise and put up a parking lot". Well, NBR is GONE, GONE, GONE and the parking lot they put up is full of poison ivy.