Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant article I read today from Variety magazine
I used to get so frustrated at school when our campus TV station – Newswatch – grabbed the stories and reporting done by The Daily Mississippian staffers to fill their 30-minute show, not once ever mentioning that The DM had reported the news first. I got in arguments with their station manager over the pilfering of our content; some of them were bloody. I asked my journalism professors, “Do TV stations even have reporters of their own, who go out and drum up stories and gather facts like newspaper people do?” I was assured that at bigger stations, many reporters did run out to cover things. But the local newspaper was still one of their first, go-to sources for story ideas and content.
Gag.
Even some print-based writers who visited UM for journalism week hinted that they were frustrated by the “read and tell” strategy of TV networks; one big name from a big mag in New York even said CNN would stop running if the New York Times failed to come out one day. I nodded along with him from my seat in the audience and cursed TV journalism one more time.
So it’s nice to see that:
• People are aware that broadcast sources borrow heavily from newspapers and other print media
• As such, TV and radio will see declines like the newspaper industry
Karma, karma, karma.
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