Tuesday, September 16, 2003
Well, if you ever need an endpoint to this era in the rise and fall of CNN, now you have it: "The guy who was news director at WMAQ when the Chicago station hired Jerry Springer for its 10 p.m. newscast has been hired by CNN to oversee the cable news channel."
CNN Chases Fox Into the Abyss.
In the Beginning, since the dawn of time, there was Network News.
Watergate: News comes of age.
Post-Watergate: everybody wants their own watergate. X*gate becomes catch-all descriptor for story cum indictment.
Gotcha/Miami-Style: a local phenomenon at first, Miami-Style applies the motto "If it bleeds, it leads," while including entertainment crap as news. "Gotcha" is the obvious fractoid derivative of its Watergate predecessor. Say you're a beat reporter covering the school board. You covered Watergate endlessly in school (studying Journalism or "Communications"). You and 1,000 other reporters across the country are all trying to break LocalSchoolBoardGate. Gotcha incorporates the all the hidden camera, "X on your side", "Fraud Busters" stuff.
Cable News begins: MTV is cool, CNN is not.
24-Hour (Cable) News: Gulf War I, MTV and CNN are both cool now.
'96er and Syndicate-Miami News: O.J./Elian. Consolidation. You still get 24 hour news, just none of it matters to you. The Syndicate will tell you what you need to know: Local news is a cost to be minimized.
Fox NeoCon Jingo-Fascist News: "Reality" programming. Clinton/Lewinsky impeachment. Neither MTV nor CNN are cool. The Internet ownz your news now, not that CNN streaming is at all reliable, just that Microsoft and AOL are major providers.
We have officially reached the pre-Google period.
CNN Chases Fox Into the Abyss.
In the Beginning, since the dawn of time, there was Network News.
Watergate: News comes of age.
Post-Watergate: everybody wants their own watergate. X*gate becomes catch-all descriptor for story cum indictment.
Gotcha/Miami-Style: a local phenomenon at first, Miami-Style applies the motto "If it bleeds, it leads," while including entertainment crap as news. "Gotcha" is the obvious fractoid derivative of its Watergate predecessor. Say you're a beat reporter covering the school board. You covered Watergate endlessly in school (studying Journalism or "Communications"). You and 1,000 other reporters across the country are all trying to break LocalSchoolBoardGate. Gotcha incorporates the all the hidden camera, "X on your side", "Fraud Busters" stuff.
Cable News begins: MTV is cool, CNN is not.
24-Hour (Cable) News: Gulf War I, MTV and CNN are both cool now.
'96er and Syndicate-Miami News: O.J./Elian. Consolidation. You still get 24 hour news, just none of it matters to you. The Syndicate will tell you what you need to know: Local news is a cost to be minimized.
Fox NeoCon Jingo-Fascist News: "Reality" programming. Clinton/Lewinsky impeachment. Neither MTV nor CNN are cool. The Internet ownz your news now, not that CNN streaming is at all reliable, just that Microsoft and AOL are major providers.
We have officially reached the pre-Google period.
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