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  1. Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ @[email protected] ·

    @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:

    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:

    archive.org/details/newsfromno

    Full text: libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=1

    Pretty fascinating read.

    @jalefkowit

    #IFStone #IzzyStone #DayAtNight #EdwardJayEpstein #NewsFromNowhere

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