Network News's Perfect Storm

Media Channel by Marc Kusnetz | Jan. 31, 2008 (News Analysis)

Paradoxically, television is trying to remain relevant by appropriating the techniques of the computer, while ignoring its unique qualities. In so doing, television news is delegitimizing itself. It deepens the problem by insisting that all stories must have an arc--a beginning, a middle, and an end that is clear and, if possible, have a touch of inevitability, as great stories often do.

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Feb. 3, 2008

The author of this opinion piece is nostalgic for the “good old days” and he provides some interesting anecdotes about his service in the industry. But he is ignorant of the prior history of the TV networks: they have always been owned by big corporations. General Electric formed RCA, parent of NBC, in 1919, for example, and controlled NBC for decades. Thus blaming the failures of network TV news on big corporations goes against the facts. This lowers the credibility of the piece considerably.

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