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...decision, in retrospect, was a no-brainer--made easier for NBC by the fact that it had two sister cable channels, MSNBC and CNBC, continuing the O.J. stakeout in Santa Monica, California. But the decision had particular resonance for NBC. The network's evening newscast has faced similar--if less momentous--choices night after night for the past several months, and has come down, more often than not, on the opposite side: bypassing or downplaying traditional Washington stories in favor of news, trends and features from the heartland--plus a liberal dose of O.J. The strategy has worked...
Disney and ABC. General Electric and NBC. Westinghouse and CBS. Microsoft and MSNBC. Time Warner and Turner. Among the trends in the media world is consolidation, with sprawling corporations' owning news organizations and raising the specter of conflicting interests and a less diverse babble of journalistic voices. The Nation magazine this summer published an octopus-like chart of media conglomerates, noting that the companies themselves would be unlikely to do so. Herewith, we do so, detailing that of our parent company...
...Most Influential Americans" list this year). This week we try to do a fair and honest job of looking at the strains caused by Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and at the bitter battles and strange alliances among the growing number of news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox. We initially failed to cover the Time Warner merger when it was announced seven years ago, but we learned our lesson quickly and tried to cover subsequent corporate dealings as we would any business story...
Disney and ABC. General Electric and NBC. Westinghouse and CBS. Microsoft and MSNBC. Time Warner and Turner. Among the trends in the media world is consolidation, with sprawling corporations' owning news organizations and raising the specter of conflicting interests and a less diverse babble of journalistic voices. The Nation magazine this summer published an octopus-like chart of media conglomerates, noting that the companies themselves would be unlikely to do so. Herewith, we do so, detailing that of our parent company...
...Most Influential Americans" list this year). This week we try to do a fair and honest job of looking at the strains caused by Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting and at the bitter battles and strange alliances among the growing number of news outlets such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox. We initially failed to cover the Time Warner merger when it was announced seven years ago, but we learned our lesson quickly and tried to cover subsequent corporate dealings as we would any business story...