To: llevrok
One of the legacies of the O.J. Simpson saga was the discovery that a TV news division could garner huge ratings with blanket coverage of a Really Big Story
didn't that really start with the Iranian hostage crisis ?
2 posted on
04/20/2007 1:22:22 PM PDT by
stylin19a
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To: stylin19a
Yeah. Day 7 and ABC was hooked. It morphed into Nighline.
To: stylin19a
Maybe it started with the moon landing?
4 posted on
04/20/2007 1:27:11 PM PDT by
Ken522
To: stylin19a
well, Nightline, certainly. But I think wall to wall on the cable channels (at least) was OJ.
5 posted on
04/20/2007 1:28:32 PM PDT by
llevrok
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