But it’s not clear at all what they are actually doing differently:
CBS News will overhaul its coverage of the 2016 Democratic and Republican conventions to emphasize participants “on the ground” rather than chatter in the network’s skybox, CBS News President David Rhodes said.
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He said his bias is toward coverage of what they are doing and saying as opposed to putting resources into the “air-conditioned skyboxes” above the convention floor that typically showcase network reporters and analysts.Traditional keynote speeches and other major scheduled events will be aired, he said.
So what exactly is CBS changing? Interviewing newsmakers somewhere other than the convention? Doesn’t sound so groundbreaking to us…
Commodity Marketing Syndrome: The more your product is exactly like your competition, the more you try to show how different it is. CBS needs you to think of the great convention coverage of the 1950s -1970s, when the most trusted names in News were earning their marks on the convention floor and in the hallways outside the main floor with gritty insight. Now they all sitting in their booths and look at maps and talk about projections.
You are probably right. The coverage might be about the same, but they need a narrative that they are “doing it differently than the rest.”
Corporate News, Corporate Politics, Corporate Coverage. We can hope for better, but I doubt anybody on a network isn’t pretty severely compromised. Will be getting my news from here and daily kos, as well as check in with Huff and RCP. Follow CNN and PBS but not buying their lines. Yes, even PBS/NPR has become less than reliable over the past 2 decades Tea Party/ Rapepublican domination of govt