When I worked in television news, long ago, it was under the wing of the independent news department. TV news, now, is under the programming department and beho

When I worked in television news, long ago, it was under the wing of the independent news department. TV news, now, is under the programming department and beholding to marketing. Thus, you'll find "news" stories about products being introduced--even promoted--by "news stories" and pretty boys and girls. Especially on local TV shows where money is tighter and few stations employ full-time news personnel to actually dig into a story and are only "rip-and-readers" as we called them back in the day.