Does The New York Times (NYT) have a future as a television network? Not on the evidence of TimesCast, the short-form daily video program the paper introduced on its website Monday. It highlights the big news stories of the day, following them through the eyes of the Times journalists covering them. What it doesn't have are any of the elements that viewers have come to expect from TV news: lively pacing, polished delivery, dynamic visuals. It's easy to make fun of the soulless slickness and seizure-inducing hyperactivity of modern-day news shows, especially cable news shows, but TimesCast shows you what they would be without it: C-SPAN, basically.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2024 15:53 UTC