I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.
Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.
We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.
TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.