Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Oct 10, 2024

@bjkingape Agreed there.

As noted, the Murrow connection just occurred to me recently.

There's a lot of insight into how TV news tropes / practices formed in a 1970s book, "News from Nowhere" by Edward Jay Epstein:

https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret0000epst

(Link may be down for now as IA have been hacked recently, should work later.)

More on Epstein (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jay_Epstein.

A lot has changed in terms of technology, access, and the ability to report from more locations. But much hasn't, particularly the strict time limits on reporting (Fred Friendly, of CBS lost his job insisting on gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congressional debate over US involvement in Vietnam, which the network preempted with an I Love Lucy re-run), audience maintenance (building and keeping audiences), the need to fit news to readily-interpreted narratives, reliance on print sources for news (finally ending as print sources all but die), etc. Epstein's book is a huge eye-opener.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​Dec 13, 2022

@ardgedee The 1960s was the dawn of TV news coverage, for the most part. Remember that the 1960 US Presidential campaign was the first to have a live televised debate.

I.F. Stone had a great 1974 conversation on the state of news (mostly print, though also television) on the "Day at Night" PBS interview programme:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qV3gO3zxQ1g

There's also Edward Jay Epstein's News from Nowhere which describes the state, art, business, and practice of television news specifically, in 1973:

https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret00epst/page/n5/mode/2up

Full text: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=14C940300F3D0EA68652013E3046A701

Pretty fascinating read.

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