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I would say it was a case of suicide.
1 posted on 04/19/2005 1:17:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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Sam if only it was so. Unfortunately Peter Jennings is not Network News.


2 posted on 04/19/2005 1:18:59 PM PDT by hflynn
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I wholly doubt 30 million individuals tune in to network news every evening. Cut that number by one-third and divide by two.


3 posted on 04/19/2005 1:21:03 PM PDT by whereasandsoforth (Stamp out liberals with the big boot of truth)
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It's almost like they sat in their anchor chair doing play-by-play as the world passed them by.....


4 posted on 04/19/2005 1:22:39 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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Well, Sam ought to know - he had a big part in killing it.


6 posted on 04/19/2005 1:24:20 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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I check in here if I think something critical is up. FR is often ahead of the networks. Plus you get more and better detail here and sometimes there are even freepers on the scene.


7 posted on 04/19/2005 1:24:27 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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If it wasn't for the drug industry there would be no commercial dollars for network news shows.


8 posted on 04/19/2005 1:24:39 PM PDT by Semper Paratus (-)
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Maybe if they had reported news instead of their liberal point of view the competition would have been relegated to obscurity.


10 posted on 04/19/2005 1:25:39 PM PDT by Pylot
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I would say it was a case of suicide.

I would say it was a case of FreeRepublic roadkill.

11 posted on 04/19/2005 1:26:09 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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Yessssssss!!!!!!


12 posted on 04/19/2005 1:27:28 PM PDT by taxesareforever
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The bass turds did it to themselves.... ;o)


13 posted on 04/19/2005 1:27:48 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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I remember "back in the day" when CNN first started and The Big Three were poopin' popsicles back then, LOL! It has been a slow, painful death to watch...but they certainly brought it upon themselves, and Thank God for all the other news outlets of today!

I feel much better informed due to alternative news and the net. I used to have a few liberal leanings, and they are totally gone now. It's amazing how easy it was to manipulate and brainwash us all those years.


14 posted on 04/19/2005 1:28:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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"If it's dying, it's dying a very slow death," Greenfield said. Although the network news monopoly was "smashed" by cable, broadcast news will redefine itself, thought he didn't yet know how. "

and there are still people using film cameras who think digital photography is a fad that will eventually fade away.


15 posted on 04/19/2005 1:28:56 PM PDT by BadAndy (Specializing in unnecessarily harsh comments.)
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...broadcast news will redefine itself, thought he didn't yet know how.

It'll beef up it's sponsors! "Tonight Headlines: Politics (brought to you by the DNC); Crime (brought to you by the RNC); Science (brought to you by GreenPeace); and our special feature "Investigating Presidential Secrets", brought to you by the Hillaryin'08 Campaign ."

17 posted on 04/19/2005 1:34:54 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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Or murder, maybe. Definitely a homocide.


18 posted on 04/19/2005 1:36:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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"If it's dying, it's dying a very slow death," Greenfield said. Although the network news monopoly was "smashed" by cable, broadcast news will redefine itself, thought he didn't yet know how.

Hmmm, maybe the problem is that broadcast news already redefined itself sometime during the last 40 years or so. The definition as it stands today is something like:

"Leftwardly biased, DNC lapdogs"

Maybe the next "redifinition" will put them where they truly belong, among the ranks of such "news" sources as The Weekly World News.

Donaldson, however, said journalists shouldn't have blanket protection when lives are at stake, but didn't know how to draft a law that would balance the need to ensure that journalists can protect whistle blowers but won't impede legal investigations.

Gee Sam, here's an idea: how about you and all the other journalistic hacks out there are subject to the same laws as everyone else?

Self-important b*tt-wipe.

19 posted on 04/19/2005 1:38:26 PM PDT by Sicon
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"I think it's dead. Sorry,"

I'm not. Requiescat in pace.


21 posted on 04/19/2005 1:47:26 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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Network news was losing money in the 70s and never recovered - in my experience as a media buyer in Boston in the '70s and '80s, obviously before cable.

It could have been a loser in the 60's as well, I don't know, but in my term of media expertise, it went steadily downhill and UHF comedies were getting larger audiences in the same time slots, reflecting the sorts of people who watched at that hour.

23 posted on 04/19/2005 1:57:45 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Honor and Dignity)
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Well, given choices, the people have gone elsewhere.


24 posted on 04/19/2005 1:58:34 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The Irish are the blacks of Europe ... So say it once, say it loud, 'I'm black and I'm proud'. ")
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The three also agreed ... that Internet bloggers have had a generally positive impact on news because mainstream reporters are forced to better verify their information and pare opinions out of their work or face he wrath of scrutinizing critics.

At least they got that news story right.

I guess this is their way of saying, Our editors have left us without supervision for way toooo long.

25 posted on 04/19/2005 2:01:11 PM PDT by GretchenM (Darwin's *theory* of evolution flamed Hitler's all-too-real eugenics.)
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Network news might be dead but that thing on Sam's head sure isn't.


26 posted on 04/19/2005 2:08:49 PM PDT by rdcorso (The Democratic Party Has Become An Abomination)
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