The Blog from the Core - "And That's the Way It Was"

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		The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thu. 03/03/05 06:47:09 PM


		"And That's the Way It Was" "... thought-hangover from 30 years ago..." A great column today by Peggy Noonan at OpinionJournal: .... I worked at CBS 20 years ago and what was true of us then is true now, and true of every other network newsroom: They key evening news coverage off the front page of the New York Times. In Ken Auletta's piece in The New Yorker this week on Dan Rather's goodbye he has Mr. Rather in a "Front Page" mode, briskly asking his executive producer what the lead will be that night. Iraq, he answers, and part of the package keys off today's Times report. Why do they do this? Is it because the Times knows everything? No. And network producers know it doesn't know everything. But the bosses of the producers read the Times. And the owners of the network read the Times. And the subordinates of the producers read the Times. They do this because it's there. If it's in the Times, it's real. This is a thought-hangover from 30 years ago, but it lingers.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/03/05 06:47:09 PM Categorized as Media.

Cor ad cor loquitur — J. H. Newman — “Heart speaks to heart”