*** The arrival of news divisions in the 1950s and '60s ***
Interestingly, this rise also correlates with the rise in Socialism, Communism, and radical extremists who want to kill babies but save trees.
Who apparently has no opinion or is unwilling to speak about forged documents being used to smear someone. Yet he speaks of "Excellence". Give me a break.
Actually in the 10PM boradcast hour, FOX had more viewers than ALL THREE brodcast networks combined..
This was inevitable, In liberty's century the weakness of the arguments of the left pale in comparison to the facts of living Free or dying from terror.
No, what is lost is the chance to spin, to deceive and to impose a specific point of view.
You'll note the rise of CNN didn't scare the editors of "Pravda on the Potomac," but the rise of Fox did. Why? For all the complaints we may have about O'Reilly being a blowhard mock-conservative, and Hannity being a wuss, Fox truly IS fair and gives conservatives a fair shake. In a war of ideas, THAT scares the libs to no end, and hence, why the "concern" about the rise of cable news channels.
I say give us more balance! Hel*, give us a flat out conservative basic cable network! Let the libs have ABCNNBCBS and MTV....I'd rather have Fox, CMT and a hypothetical all-conservative-all-the-time network. THERE'S freedom of thought for ya!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TO: CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN
FM: Enterprise
RE: News
DT: 09/12/04
Sirs/Maams:
The evening news was intended to serve the public good. You have with obvious partisanship abandoned any intent to serve the public good, and you are hereby relieved of any further news assignments. Please replace your evening news segments with the usual mindless sitcoms and maybe some hip-hop documentaries.
Toodles:
Enterprise
The GM of a TV station I worked at in the early 80's predicted that network news dominance would end by the year 2000. He didn't miss it by much. News divisions at every level must realize that the schmuck they've been talking down to for the past 40 years is not only keeping up with the news without tuning in, he's ahead of them.
The End of Daily Print Media
In an article that Drudge has from the Seattle P-I (of all papers), the authenticity of he Bush docs is questioned and the article cites many of the discrepancies.
When a paper from as liberal an area as Seattle begins to question the authenticity of those forged memos, Blather and SeeBS are definitely spitting into the wind. This story is getting more fun by the minute.
I hate excerpt only registration sites.
And when it became obvious that the news divisions were offering opinion and not news, the public recreated its own news divisions via the World Wide Web, with FreeRepublic in the vanguard.
"Network journalism originally was designed not to make a profit but to create prestige."
And what news program was the first to turn a profit and change news divisions into money-makers? Why, that would be "60Minutes".
The American public has lost nothing in the switch from Old Media to New Media...they are now part of the process, and that's good. But the networks have lost their control over news, and that's GREAT.
Have some cheese Dan.
Note the "particularly last week" part.
Now what was the big story last week involving the networks? Methinks these three words speak volumes and are a major sign that the rats are definitely leaving the sinking CBS/Dan Rather ship. Given this "catastrophe" and the terrible poll numbers for Kerry the smart guys in the media may be thinking it is time to take the foot of the Kerry gas pedal and start thinking about their reputation as news reporters. We'll see. I'm hopeful.
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These changes were managed by controlling the information itself -- i.e. which news was "newsworthy" and how it was described -- and by subtle editorializing in the course of news pieces.
The destruction -- ranging from the New Deal to the Great Society to the moral decay and collapse of the last 25 years -- has been incalculable. People whose personal experiences told them that something they were hearing was wrong were isolated, and had no way to communicate broadly their knowledge to others.
I'm not going to miss the days of Big Journalism one bit. Are we still going to be lied to and deceived? Of course. Are we going to hear nothing but the same 5-tongued lockstep lies that we all grew up with? No.
The fragmentation of the country that is going to accelerate as a result of the New Media will have good effects and bad effects both. But all it all, I'd rather have part of the country knowing the truth, than have all of the country believing a lie.
Good riddance.
First, they abdicated their responsibility
