The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.
You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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