Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.