17 ordspråk av Matthew Felling
Matthew Felling
(Broussard's comments) deserved an on-air correction, they did not deserve an on-air interrogation.
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[Disaster coverage] feeds a demographic of grief junkies, who are tapping away at the remote control like a rat tapping for crack pellets, ... Not only does misery love company, it also makes for compelling television.
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Advocacy is calling for action. Aggressive reporting is calling for answers.
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After the traffic stoppages have passed and the facts are rehashed, reporters are merely craning their necks and halting the normal pace of the news, ... There's 10 or 15 minutes of real news here and they're filling four hours with it. That's what most people have a problem with.
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Are you getting more political information from Koppel or from Letterman? That's an interesting question,
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Celebrity gossip has become like the blob in that (1958) Steve McQueen movie: It spreads everywhere it can. 'Entertainment Tonight' begat 'Access Hollywood.' TV people saw these two shows could succeed and created an entire channel for it.
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He leaves a lot to the imagination. That's manna from heaven for these comics.
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I can't see a demand for a cable tier with no sports programming nor any of the big three cable news networks.
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I don't think Katrina is the turning point so much as 2005 is the turning point,
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I think 'Friends' ' success lies partly in the diversity of its characters but mostly 'Friends' enjoyed the benefits of a very weak decade in television entertainment. Were they on top? Were they champions? Sure, but the competition wasn't all that good to begin with,
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If there is a demand for family tiers, this is a very wobbly attempt.
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It's an accumulation of things. In Iraq, it's the reality versus the perception and the whole debate of whether we're in the last throes of the insurgency or in for a dozen more years. The momentum has been building toward the media regaining its sea legs.
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She will either wreck the evening news or rescue it.
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That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.
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The media's credibility takes a short-term hit with these public corrections. But ... the media is becoming very skillful at policing itself - which will build its accuracy in the future.
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