Posted on 12/09/2004 7:04:07 AM PST by MindBender26
At "The Week's" event yesterday, I was lucky to sit next to Garrick Utley, legendary NBC News correspondent, and Myron Kandel of CNN. They need no introductions. I introduce myself as an internet exec and also a blogger.
So Utley asks what impact blogs are having on big media. He says he gave a commentary after the '92 election that said that politics is forever changed into a new kind of conversation.
We talked about how it's too bad there are no commentaries from network anchors anymore (or I said that because I think it's part of meeting the need for transparency).
Utley talked about his father's career in radio, which used to be filled with commentary: They read the news and then they told you what they thought about it, from one side or the other. Talk radio today is no different, he said, only they talk longer.
I asked about the fate of network news. Utley said the jig was up a decade ago.
I asked what they'd advise students trying to go into journalism today. They each shrugged, regretfully. Utley wondered whether anyone could make a living in this new medium.
Here's the point: Utley (whom I spoke with more than with Kandel) really gets it. He is, in all sense of the word, an old media guy. But he gets it. Even from a brief conversation at a crowded table, it's clear that he understands exactly where the news business is today. And well he should; he has seen it all and done it all.
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Radio/TV. Last gig was Statehouse in Iowa. 90 hours/week.
well the networks still have a HUGE audience...
I don't know the numbers but I think nearly half of the population still doesn't have cable??
but I could be wrong...
The Media Revolution reminds me of the Protestant Revolution. The priest became unnecessary to communicate with God.
Goodie....bye bye propaganda network news!!!
so, did you ask them for permission to quote them?
Bullseye! You're exactly right. Credibility is what it has always ever been about. When people trusted "Uncle Walter" they watched him. Today more and more people trust Brit Hume and he really is one of the best hard newsmen around today. I wish that Fox would clear a one hour block on their local affiliates at five or six o'clock and air Special Report or something like it. It would quickly eclipse all of the other nightly news shows and it would reach those poor souls who can't get FoxNews. Unfortunately, with the decline of the other network news shows, I think that the Fox affiliates are convinced that they'll lose money. They think that reruns of the Simpsons will make them more money. There's also some liberal bias on the part of some Fox affiliates I think. Our local affiliate runs segments produced by CNN more often than FoxNews on the Ten O'Clock News. It's sad.
Well hopefully Murdock is reading this thread. LOL
'cause I believe there is a definite void in nightly national news that has not been filled...
I think FOX should do just that.
Everyone should let FOX know we want them to broadcast Brit for those without cable.
Re your post 9, that's something that I keep wondering about, too. It just seems such an obvious big market. Not everyone has cable or satellite service.
it sounds like a "nobrainer" to me...
maybe Brit Hume should email me. LOL
I could do the promos...
Tony Snow on Fox News tonight at 6!
Snow covers the world on Fox tonight! LOL(okay maybe not)
Maybe just airing Brit's 6pm show on Fox Broadcast stations.
Can we correct the attribution?
Jeff Davis => Jeff Jarvis
You too, huh?
I felt like I was running a day-care center for socialists.
If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear it, why do they care whether it made a sound?
I'm with you Brit Hume and Tony Snow what a team....and what a great news program.
No commentaries? There's very little real news once you get past the commentaries and the fluff stories (stay tuned for our next story on cats: friendly pet or feline menace?).
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