@ardgedee The 1960s was the dawn of TV news coverage, for the most part. Remember that the 1960 US Presidential campaign was the first to have a live televised debate.

I.F. Stone had a great 1974 conversation on the state of news (mostly print, though also television) on the "Day at Night" PBS interview programme:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qV3gO3zxQ1g

There's also Edward Jay Epstein's News from Nowhere which describes the state, art, business, and practice of television news specifically, in 1973:

https://archive.org/details/newsfromnowheret00epst/page/n5/mode/2up

Full text: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=14C940300F3D0EA68652013E3046A701

Pretty fascinating read.

@jalefkowit

#IFStone #IzzyStone #DayAtNight #EdwardJayEpstein #NewsFromNowhere

On Media Affordances: Broadcast vs. Print

... Broadcast and print are, as is hopefully obvious, two different media, with two different affordances.

In particular, broadcast offers a cheaply expanded audience, whilst print offers cheaply expanded content. ...

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e3c91e707bb80139700c002590d8e506

#media #print #broadcast #TheMediumIsTheMessage #NewsFromNowhere #EdwardJEpstein