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Article: Localizing network news. (On Television) (Column)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 6, 1993
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It is the consensus among people one talks to that something bad has happened to network news. They are vague, but angry. Some complain about trivialization; some about a lack of authority; some about audience exploitation. Their best example is that foreign coverage has been reduced to wars and famines. They remember network news as their messenger at the Berlin Wall and the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights revolution, the Kennedy years, Abscam. What happened?
Many things happened. To begin with, there is less that is worth reporting. Towering events bestrode the news from the Depression to the end of the Cold War. Reporting them took not days but months, even ...