You got your local daily paper, turned on one of three local news stations at 6 pm, and chose your Network news (Huntley-Brinkley, Cronkite, and whoever was on ABC) at 7 pm. The prevailing assumption was "If I can't get it there, it probably isn't worth calling it news." In those days there were news outlets.
You got your local daily paper, turned on one of three local news stations at 6 pm, and chose your Network news (Huntley-Brinkley, Cronkite, and whoever was on ABC) at 7 pm.
The prevailing assumption was "If I can't get it there, it probably isn't worth calling it news." In those days there were news outlets.
The concept was that, if you needed news, you would "plug into" an outlet and get it.
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You got your local daily paper, turned on one of three local news stations at 6 pm, and chose your Network news (Huntley-Brinkley, Cronkite, and whoever was on ABC) at 7 pm. The prevailing assumption was "If I can't get it there, it probably isn't worth calling it news." In those days there were news outlets. The concept was that, if you needed news, you would "plug into" an outlet and get it.
If you were a news geek, you had a subscription to Time or Newsweek. That much news is addicting, and it also isn't all news.
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