Karen Funk Blocher
said:
The idea of comparing the coverage reminds me of an assignment I did in journalism school lo these many years ago, back when I was majoring in tv-radio. We were to compare two or three of the network evening newscasts for a given night, so see what was in, what was out and where the emphasis was. John Chancellor led off that night was the following: "Alleged Watergate conspirators X,Y, and Z were indicted today on:" followed by a list. CBS and ABC didn't mention that particular story. (This was 1975 or 1976, long after Nixon resigned.) I never found out whether NBC broke the story and the others jumped in later, or whether the others considered Watergate old hat by then and weren't that interested.
Nowadays, of course, NBC would break it on MSNBC, and everyone else would have the story in some form five minutes later.
Date: 12/14/2009 11:57:27 PM
Karen Funk Blocher
said:
The idea of comparing the coverage reminds me of an assignment I did in journalism school lo these many years ago, back when I was majoring in tv-radio. We were to compare two or three of the network evening newscasts for a given night, so see what was in, what was out and where the emphasis was. John Chancellor led off that night was the following: "Alleged Watergate conspirators X,Y, and Z were indicted today on:" followed by a list. CBS and ABC didn't mention that particular story. (This was 1975 or 1976, long after Nixon resigned.) I never found out whether NBC broke the story and the others jumped in later, or whether the others considered Watergate old hat by then and weren't that interested.
Nowadays, of course, NBC would break it on MSNBC, and everyone else would have the story in some form five minutes later.
Date: 12/14/2009 11:57:27 PM
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