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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
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When I was a kid we had Walter or Huntley Brinkley sitting at a desk reading the news with a film clip here and there. Local news in LA was Jerry Dunphy and the Big News, Jack Latham and Clete Roberts.
I really am surprised no one mentioned the 1975 movie "Network" written by Paddy Chayefsky and I am as MAD AS HELL...if you watch that movie you will see how PROPHETIC it was just by tuning into a News Program. Paddy spelled it out 36 years ago.
The News back in the day was considered to be a Public Service as required by the FFC that so many hours of programing be devoted to that cause everyday..usually at 2AM..As such it was not for profit. That changed in the mid 1970's when the TV execs decided that the News could be a profit center. So the news became Glitizy with the Bubble Headed Beach Blond of Eagles fame as anchor...from there it became all about RATINGS and $$$$, so if it bled it led. It has been all downhill since then.
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