@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.

#NewsFromNowhere #EdwardJayEpstein #FredWFriendly #TVNews #Journalism