Meet the Press - From Chuck Todd's house - and other media

Meet the Press has been in production for 72 years. It is the longest running program in television history. Today MTP was broadcast from Chuck Todd's home office. That is certainly a first.

I noticed that Anderson Cooper was broadcasting from his home.

I keep thinking that this virus is going to change the face of many businesses and activities permanently. Online school? If you want to dramatically drive down the cost of education, online schools are the way to do it. This pandemic is going to make online school common for everyone. And I doubt it will all go back to the way it was. No worries about school shootings. No buses. No buildings. No janitors or power bills. And no threat of spreading contagions. The advantages are too big too ignore. I expect this pandemic to highly accelerate the movement towards online education.

As mentioned, it is interesting to see studio productions going to the home office. Will NBC and other networks eventually be reduced to home productions? I have to wonder. I guess the studio was really just a place to centralize expensive technology, and that is no longer necessary.

 

Another thought about online schools. Every year, children act as a primary vector for disease transmission. This is primarily because of school. It makes one wonder what the reduced cost of health care might be each year if children didn't spread diseases to each other at school.

https://www.aier.org/article/the-ec...MIjJj41d7B6AIVjONkCh20RgRHEAAYASAAEgLSOvD_BwE

So this only includes the direct costs and only for influenza.

https://www.contemporarypediatrics....cinate-school-aged-children-against-influenza

Beyond reducing the number of illnesses each year, there is the additional advantage of putting the burden of raising children back where it belongs - on the parents. For far too long, public education has been used as a baby sitter. While the need is practical for two working parents, that will simply have to change. I am sick to death of paying to educate other people's children. If the only practical means of reducing the cost of public education is to go online and keep the kids at home, people will just have to start factoring that in when they plan to have a family. In three words: NOT MY PROBLEM. If you want to have kids, you pay for it. Either get a job that allows you to work from home, or plan to hire day care if you want to have children. I am not going to pay for your babysitter and call it a school.