Posted on 09/04/2004 12:04:54 AM PDT by kattracks
September 4, 2004 -- NETWORK news divisions are nursing bruises in the wake of the Republican National Convention, in which viewers found cable news more popular. It was a seismic shift in the history of convention coverage, and it sent a clear message to network news officials that in 2008, things will have to be different."There's no question that we stood back and said to each other, 'Whoa, what happened there,' " a network news source said yesterday.
"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin. "But there are a whole host of new technologies coming online now that we will all utilize four years from now in ways that none of us may even suspect right now."
Slavin thinks that next time, the big nets are likely to offer viewers convention coverage "significantly enhanced over what they received this year" specifically tailored to different viewers tastes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That would make a great postcard we could mail to the dopes of the LSM.
I think that the MSM thought that Kerry (with their help) was going to sweep the election and therefore intentionally chose to downplay the conventions in order to take away the natural platform for Bush to shine. They've been misreading the people ever since 2000.
What they wound up doing is deny themselves the profits that go with high viewership, as well as boost the image of the Fox News Channel at the cost of their own images.
Now they are going to lick their wounds and vow to not make the same mistakes in 2008. Of course, in 2008 there will be an open presidency and they can start playing their games all over again with Hillary!.
-PJ
He can't accept change. If he were in a different field of work, he'd be running a horsewhip and buggy operation and trying to sell it as a "new revolution".
For the past 24 years we have seen a slow but sure shift away from the Main Stream Media. More people rely on Fox News than ever before and I salute them
pictures. sound.
no anchor commentaries.
perfect.
end of story.
turn out the lights walter.
America has flushed the propoganda channels.
The alphabets have lost their hold as surely as newspapers did when radio and then TV came to be.
The internet has put the screws to the screwers.
Fox is onboard with today's info junkie consumers and filled a gap.
The rest are just steering an abandoned ship.
They still don't get it
It's not all about the "new technologies coming online"
It's about reporting the truth
"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention,"
LOL That's your problem, Slavin. Get a clue. The message is clear. It's you that has the problem.
Snobs tend to do that. That's why they underestimated Ronald Reagan and GW Bush. It's also why they were caught completely by surprise when Reagan brought down their beloved USSR. They will always be easy to sucker punch because they consider themselves so much more sophisticated, so much better than the people who actually make America work.
This is the type of news that might drive change in the network news media and the other cable news networks.
It comes down to business, and the biases of the journalists in the non-Fox News newsies should come under examination by the management, which considers ratings more important than ideology.
In other words, if the truth sells.... we'll be getting the truth, or something closer to it than we have for the past 4 years. Cross your fingers.
Naaa .. Chrissy needs a Hollywood movie scene to figure out what happen
Yep, no more biased coverage.
The lesson, dear sir, is that the MSM is an @$$wipe for the left which is why the MSM stinks to high heaven....
I want every so-called journalist licensed and certified annually, overseen by a random consumer group; itself subject to consumer review.
Looks as if they learned absolutely nothing.
My beebers were two....
ABC News Now, their answer to 24-hour cable news is a freakin' joke. No way in heck am I going to buy a RealPlayer subscription just to watch one channel that I know is Liberal biased. That cable channel is no alternative, to me it's just an extension to the 30-minute snoozecast Peter Jennings hosts.
The media clowns know where the problem is, they just can't come to terms with the problem and fix it. It's cheaper for the MSM to lob cheapshots at FOX News, than it is to just fix their own damn network newscast.
That's always been the key to dealing with the media politburo emphemistically known as the TV networks -- the sponsors. Threaten the sponsors, hurt the sponsors and you've hurt the networks. An organized, systematic, unrelenting ass-whupping of all the major sponsors who dare to reward the networks would, in time, radically alter the face of mass communication in this country.
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