"You Don't Understand Our Audience"

"One might have thought that the television industry, with its history of rapid adaptation to technological change, would have become a center of innovation for the next radical transformation in communication. It did not. Instead, the United States is arguably more isolated and less educated about the world than it was a half-century ago. Full Story »

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Russ Wellen
4.6
by Russ Wellen - Oct. 1, 2008

Hockenberry, a former news person at NBC, describes what he witnessed while working on "Dateline." He chronicles incident after incident in which NBC brass not only opted for entertainment over hard news, but made no attempt to make use of or understand emerging technologies, like the Internet. Almost all of the story is first-hand.

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4.6

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5.0
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4.5
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4.0
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