On Apr 11, 9:14=A0pm, Ubiquitous <web...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> It was this time last year, the professor notes, that Federal
> Communications Commission Commissioner Michael Copps criticized the
> television news industry for giving the public "too much baloney
> passed off as news."
Exactly what year was that? 1957? 1947? Because back then they were
making the same complaints.
As to Murrow, the reality is that few watched his news broadcasts.
His news re****ts ran at a terrible loss that had to be subsidized by
other CBS shows. Where people DID watch Murrow was in his celebrity
interview show that was strictly soft fluff pieces, with questions
distributed in advance. That wasn't news, but it paid the bills.
If you look at a photo of a newsstand from 60 years ago you'll see
that good publications occupy only a smart section. Trashy Hollywood
gossip rags, detective thrillers, comic books, and cheap Westerns
occupied most of the newsstand.
Apparently you forgot or didn't know that newspapers back then were
horribly corrupt, printing gossip and 'leaks' from anonymous sources
intended to smear people the publisher didn't like.
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