Matthew Felling
Matthew Felling
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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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If there is a demand for family tiers, this is a very wobbly attempt.
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Are you getting more political information from Koppel or from Letterman? That's an interesting question,
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(Broussard's comments) deserved an on-air correction, they did not deserve an on-air interrogation.
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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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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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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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She will either wreck the evening news or rescue it.
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The Oscar gap that exists between the academy and its audience isn't snobbery or liberal elitism as much as it reflects a different grading scale. Most moviegoers look for entertainment, while the academy looks for art.
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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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This is a rough story for journalists to cover because your journalism textbook has to take a back seat to your moral compass, and the coverage is visceral because of this. When people beg Chris Lawrence for help, they're forcing him to be not just a spectator but a reluctant leader.
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Advocacy is calling for action. Aggressive reporting is calling for answers.
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He leaves a lot to the imagination. That's manna from heaven for these comics.
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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.