WGNA News Nation - unbiased journalism?

[jpmuscle]

So apparently this is brand new to cable TV and I’ve got to say it’s refreshing.

No partisan commentary or pundit rebuttals, they literally just report on what’s going on in a straightforward manner. It’s like how I remember watching the news as a kid in the 90s.


https://wgnamerica.com/


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When WGN America launches its prime time national cable newscast on Sept. 1, Chicago viewers may recognize a few familiar faces.

Most notably, Joe Donlon, co-anchor of the local WGN-Ch. 9 evening newscasts since 2018, will move to a bigger stage co-anchoring the fledgling “News Nation” broadcasts, the Chicago-based cable network announced Tuesday.

“I’m giving up one of the best local news gigs in the country, but not many people get this kind of an opportunity and there was no way I was going to turn it down,” Donlon said.

Donlon will be paired with Marni Hughes, a veteran Seattle-based TV news anchor, with a lot of Chicago talent behind the scenes.

Other Chicago veterans with prominent on-air roles include former WGN-TV reporters Tom Negovan, who will serve as a New York-based correspondent, and Nancy Loo, who will report from Los Angeles.

Competing with established cable news networks such as CNN and Fox, “News Nation” is seeking to carve out a niche with a mission of delivering “unbiased” straight news. The newscasts will broadcast nightly from 7 to 10 p.m. from studios being built at WGN’s facilities in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.

“We’re going to tell you what happens, we’re not going to tell you what to think about it,” said Jennifer Lyons, 52, the longtime news director at WGN-TV in Chicago who is now overseeing the new national cable news broadcast.

Lyons said "News Nation” intends to shift the focus away from an increasingly partisan Washington D.C., and spend more time covering stories from the center of the country — both geographically and politically.

“There’s a lot of good things to tell about the country and there’s a lot of breaking news out there that goes uncovered, because the cable news stations are talking about what’s happening at the White House,” Lyons said.

Dallas-based Nexstar Media Group completed its $4.1 billion purchase of Chicago-based Tribune Media in September, creating the nation’s largest local TV station group and adding WGN America to its portfolio.

WGN America, which started as a superstation in the 1970s by uploading WGN’s local broadcast schedule to satellite, dropped Cubs baseball and Chicago news several years ago, converting to a full-fledged cable channel with original and syndicated programming.

The shift to a prime-time news network puts WGN America in a crowded but potentially lucrative field.

WGN America has hired more than 130 people to launch the news offering, including the anchors, meteorologist Albert Ramon from Austin, Texas, and a handful of network correspondents. All but 13 of the hires are based in Chicago, Nexstar spokesman Gary Weitman said.

The cable newscast will also use the 5,400 journalists at Nexstar TV stations across the country to supply local reports.

“People trust local news,” Lyons said. “We’re using the local journalists to help us tell our national stories.”

Lyons said a number of the new hires began training Monday, with linguists and rhetoricians helping guide a fact-based, unbiased narrative that she said will be different than the opinion-based programming that dominates other cable news networks during prime time.

“Every word we choose, every image we choose, it all reflects the overall mission of what we’re doing,” Lyons said.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-wgn-america-anchors-cable-news-20200602-3cqqwb6ltrg2fdled5z4kvtemu-story.html

Thought I remembered WGN from Cubs baseball. Have to check it out.

[jpmuscle]

Harry Caray!!!!!!

Oh man those are some memories.


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[utahjeepr]

That would be refreshing. Just report WTF happens, and do it as straight and as factual as possible. Let me decide what to think about it. Screw all these talking head "experts" providing "insight" and trying to twist everything to match their viewpoint. No left or right slant, I don't care. Give me the facts of the day.

[1168]

Reporting factually? What a novel idea.

[Firefly]

I miss Dinosaucers, MASK, and Beverly Hills Teens. That came on WGN in my day. And Cubs.

That said, I unironically trust some guy in a basement surrounded by based flags and guns and anime body pillows shouting into a potato cam mounted to a Walmart bargain bin Acer laptop to comment on the news than anybody else.

History repeats itself. If you wanted to think and learn stuff you read underground zines filled with edgy commentary.

Now it’s all Fox News(Which makes you stupid) or MSNBC (which makes you gay).

Even Tomi Lahren. All she had to do was be a blonde Republican Sex Kitten and not get fat and she had it made. Nope. Hit the wall, can’t keep a man and made a drunken and shrill rant about Men because she’s getting crow’s feet and no Vitamin D.

I don’t trust nobody no more.
But I’ll check it out because I find Chicago accents amusing and I liked the Blues Brothers

[The_War_Wagon]

Started pandering to Biden tonight, 30 seconds in.

HARD pass.

[kirkland]

I click the link and the first story I see is something like "Car plows through BLM croud in NY." I think to myself, "Now is that actually true or is this another one of these roadblocking situations?" I watch the video and sure enough I was right. Another one of these scenes where they are mobbing and blocking the car that is honking it's horn and slowly trying to get through, eventually enough people attack the car that the driver hits the gas. Can't blame the driver for not wanting to be trapped by an angry mob. We've all seen what happens at these roadblocks. Hard pass here as well.