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...News President Andrew Heyward ’72 credited the explosion of cable news and the Internet with the “iPod-ization of American media”—in which viewers can actively choose what news they consume—at an intimate gathering of students and faculty in Kirkland House Monday evening...
About 30 students, along with House Masters Tom and Verena Conley, attended the speech in the Kirkland Senior Common Room, in which Heyward described the changes that had taken place in the television industry since the “heyday of network news” in the 1960s...
...Changes in our business have really been seismic in the 25 years since then...driven by technology, the proliferation of choices in news, and frankly, the changing habits of generations, particularly your generation,” Heyward said...
...driven by politics as much as his addiction to breaking news. "He takes to stories like he's still a kid and trying to prove himself," says a CBS News producer. "He loves it." Rather's contract expires in 2006, at which point he will be 75. Heyward denies any talk of asking Rather to leave early...
...that doesn't mean the rest of the staff at CBS News is happy. "We're getting whacked. And it's not fun," says the CBS News producer, who blames CBS executives, not Rather. "CBS seems to be caught flat-footed. They were slow to respond." Heyward says it's too soon to say if anything should have been done differently. But he concedes that in the current maelstrom of media, "very quickly, in this case almost instantly, you can find yourself in a debate that is raging on so many levels that it is difficult to keep track...