It's like Christmas in September!
Posted on 09/22/2004 10:00:16 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
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Howard Rosenberg, a veteran television producer who has worked for two networks, including CBS, cautions that the bloggers have their limits. But he concedes that the networks are losing their clout. "The idea that bloggers will supplant television news is a bit of a stretch," he said. "Yet to suggest that networks have the power and influence they once had is also ludicrous. The audience is fragmented."
"People get their news from a variety of sources. It is the way society is now structured. Few people are home at 6pm. The idea that people are meeting for a family meal and then sitting around watching the evening news is long gone."
An early warning signal that this was going to be a difficult season for the networks came in the first few days of September at the Republican convention. Startling audience figures revealed that for the first time a cable network - Rupert Murdoch's unashamedly gung-ho Fox News - had higher viewing figures for the convention than any of the networks. The revolution even had an eye-catching image for the cameras. As CNN's stars Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff went live from inside the convention centre, Republican delegates danced behind them shouting "Watch Fox News!".
"What happened this summer and particularly last week is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news," wrote Tom Rosenstiel, the director of a media think-tank, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the following weekend. "At the very least mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public. The networks still air nightly broadcasts that are often superb, and nearly 30 million Americans still watch. But the average age of their audience is close to 60."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
It's like Christmas in September!
What Citizens think about this story: FOX NEWS STUNS NETS
"At the very least mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public. The networks still air nightly broadcasts that are often superb, and nearly 30 million Americans still watch. But the average age of their audience is close to 60."
This would be people who would have voted for LBJ? True believers in the "Great Society" liberal domestic programs?
And they pay this guy to come up with this brilliant observation?
All anyone had to do was to check out FR and they'd already have known this.
Well he got it half right. People are still sitting down to dinner, but then they either get on their computer or they turn on Fox News.
They still do not get it. The audience is "fragmented"? These libs in the msm seemed to notice a change, but they fail to ask or answer the all important "why". The people of today are not like the people of yesterday. We no longer are bound to the TV and newspapers like our parents, consuming only that which the media elite deigned best to feed us. We are a new, better informed citizenry who has been liberated from the brainwashing cult that once held us captive. We have had a taste of freedom; and we will not go back to that Egypt now that we have gained Canaan.
What CBS fears more than dishonor is irrelevance.
CBS would rather be known as an important but corrupt organization, than as an honest but irrelevant one.
With repeated viewings it's clear RatHer's inflection is that he's sorry he got caught.
Rather like the "I can't believe I got shot" guy in the end of 48 Hours.
QOTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never been able to figure out how to be nominated for QOTW, so I'll ping the AM.
Sure, you send me over to an old thread. Bet the person I wrote a response to is gonna be scratching his head about my late response. LOL
Anyone hear anything about CSpan's numbers for the conventions?
"As CNN's stars Wolf Blitzer and Judy Woodruff went live from inside the convention centre, Republican delegates danced behind them shouting "Watch Fox News!"
Purrr-fect!!
Meanwhile...
No, Mister Rosenberg, the difference is between reality and bullshit. The 'News' Networks manufacture news and get caught, and ordinary Americans catch them in the act. The difference nowadays is that they can't get away with it as easily as they are used to. We have been fed lies for so long, it's crazy. I'll paraphrase Ann Coulter here: 'liberals do not realize how something as easy to use as Lexus/Nexus can expose their incessant lying'.
There you have it, they die by their own lies and BS spin.
"Network news was built around the carefully written and edited story...... What is lost with the passing of network TV in other words is the journalism of verification."
If only it were true.
Dirty Dan Rather probably dosen't have enough sense to figure out how to use AOL.
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another bell-weather day in the history of the Media
"This would be people who would have voted for LBJ? True believers in the "Great Society" liberal domestic programs."
Yup, vanguard of the Boomers, cut our teeth on "The Huntley-Brinkley Report."
Many of us were entrapped forever, the rest became freepers.
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