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To me, it just says cheesy, mindless, and cheap-ass programming. Cheap-ass and Cheap-as-shit. Where management could have had more people working and creating worthwhile, relevant, and watchable programming. But they like "Lockup" type programming because it's cheap. One camera crew. Maybe a local camera crew to save even more money (hey, why fly one of your professional, seasoned, network-caliber teams out to every locale?). Never mind the writer. Have the anchor, back in the studio, look through the footage and write his/her own lead-ins and outros? Who needs a writer? Who needs a producer? Never mind that those are jobs that people need and there are MANY qualified professionals who could fill. Just so it's cheap. And there go more jobs.
Never mind the totally NOT lavishly-populated news staff you'd need to cover those hours of programming needs, and, uh, this weird unknown and allegedly-too-expensive something called - um - "THE NEWS"? Didn't anyone ever hear of the old adage "it takes money to make money"? And since when did the news stop happening on weekends? Hey, if Pox Noise can think up original "news" programming to cover the whole weekend, why can't MSNBC?
And don't tell me there isn't anybody, or that there's no one available to staff this stuff, or however you try to slide it! I know and know of hundreds of well-qualified and reliable professionals who'd love any of those jobs, even if they pay shit.