Chris Cramer Quotes on Media & News (4 Quotes)

One of the most damning indictments of the media profession is that reporters provide the ink and others provide the blood,

CNN debuted in an era when the received wisdom was to feed viewers small chunks of news at set times. Most believed that there was no demand for a dedicated channel. When Ted Turner launched CNN, beaming pictures around the world 24 hours a day was revolutionary, ... Twenty-five years later it's the only way to be competitive in a world that boasts more than 70 24-hour news operations.

During the spring of 2003, as the war in Iraq raged across TV screens and in the pages of the press, 16 members of the media profession provided both the ink and the blood.

If you consider the fact that Vietnam went on for 14 or 15 years, you get a measure of how dangerous it is. At the start of the Iraq conflict, there were more journalists in harm's way. And even two years and one month on, there are still a large number of media people who have a desire an appropriate desire to tell this story on the front line.