Uhh, this idea = LAME-O! I've got two words (and hyphenated ones, at that) for network tv execs who think this is the answer to their woes: BUH-BYE!

I'll admit it. There's some weird satisfaction happening in watching the mainstream media outlets collapse - one by one by one. It's a work in very fast progress. And Bob Garfield over at Advertising Age recently offered this latest doomsday analysis of your local tv news.

[Local broadcasters depend on two things for the bulk of their revenue: ad inventory allotted to them within network shows and their ads on local news and the prime-access that follows. But rapidly shrinking network audiences will soon devastate prime-time ad revenues, and local cost-cutting will decimate local news budgets, starving the goose that lays the golden egg.