Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
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Let's concede that most journalistic enterprises need to make a profit, and to do that, they must be like supermarkets, offering a range of choices to their customers - international news, weather, sports, business, gossip, movie reviews and results of planning board meetings. But too often, journalistic supermarkets have become specialty stores,Ken Auletta
I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.
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Now NBC News devotes entire hours to 'exclusive' interviews with the Runaway Bride. CBS' '48 Hours,' which once took us inside the emergency room of a hospital,
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Historically, viewers tire of people they have seen on TV for a long period of time.
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