Talk:WBNG-TV

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[edit] focus of the article

Do we really need to have all the anchors of each of the newscasts listed? This info is highly dynamic, and is not terribly relevant, IMHO. No disrespect intended to Candice, Greg, or Keri, et. al. Perhaps we *should* include the name of station staff, and the Wikipedia page history becomes the historical record. I would go along with it if we can expand the article to include more history:

What's I feel is more important (in an enclopedic entry) are the structural issues, ownership, demonstratable bias (like how advertisers affect news coverage, e.g., Time Warner cable contract story), the story about how locally produced content is dropped down to nothing, and what's there (e.g., "the news") is highly contrived. The SJL story, how jobs were cut in half, humans replaced by machines, local content replaced with satellite-based shows? These are just the facts. The capitalist ownership model of the media has cost Binghamton 42 jobs, in just 5 years and by the hands of just one capitalist: George Lilly! This fact should be reported.

What about the new owner, Granite? Bankrupt. Not simply worthless: if you hold it, it's costing you. Yikes! Drop it quick! The worth of the stock is just $3M, but they have $450 Million of debt. And Wall Street just gives them $70 more? WTF is going on here!!! That's not economics, that voodoo! Does Don Cornwell own a small island-nation(*) worth $500M that he's put up for collateral?

(* in fact, H.E. Stuart J Beck -- who sits on the board of Granite -- is Ambassador of a small island nation, Palau! I'm not making this up, people)

And the biggest story of all, (although not really just a WBNG thing) How the intellectual empoverishment and material deprivation of the people of Binghamton by capitalists like George Lily and Don Cornwell is exactly what we should expect, by the rules we've given to our economic system. This should be in the entry. These are demonstrable facts. Wall Street profits from Binghamton being ignorant, even programmed to buy certain products or vote for certain candidates. -- Bhuston 00:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wnbf12.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:10, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wbng90s.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Wbngcirc12.jpg

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