Like you and me just yelling at each other. At talking. What draws an audience is when, in fact, we disagree. When, in fact, we get nasty with one another. What Rupert Murdochs demonstrated is that there really was a hunger in america for something that was less liberal than what the networks for putting on the air. So, fox news was born. Fox news has been hugely successful. It earns somewhere between 1. 10 0. 50 billion a year. 1 and 1. 5 billion a year. The folks at nbc took a look at what fox has been doing and figure out if they could make news skewing news to the right, if we could make half of that, lets ask you to the left. And so, you have on Cable Television news that caters to people who consider themselves progressives, news to people who consider themselves conservatives, you have the afternoon radio talk shows, the evening radio talk shows which cater largely to the conservative. You have the latenight comedy show, john stewart, stephen cole there, that tend to cater more
Kalb. [applause] hello and welcome to the National Press club. I am marvin kalb. The conversation with ted koppel about democracy and the press. If i use the word twilight to suggest that network news, as we have known it, is on its way out and as something new is emerging. Whether what is new will satisfy the urgent needs of our democracy cannot be noted at this time. Lets hope that it will. Without a free and occasionally rambunctious media, we will not be living in an open society. The free press and an open society are intimately linked, one dependent on the other. Network news if network news is in its twilight, then perhaps our democracy is facing a turning point as well. I asked an old colleague and a friend, ted koppel, to discuss the changes in network news and what those changes might mean for our society. Ted is known best for his 25 years of anchor and host of nightline, but he has also been a foreign correspondent, a war correspondent, and author, and he has covered Many P
Treasury secretary by president clinton but he declined. That headline from the New Hampshire a union leader. We will see you tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Here on the washington journal. Until then, have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] here is what is coming up on the cspan network. Live at noon on cspan, a discussion on the challenges in the middle east and United States Foreign Policy. Speakers at the Woodrow Wilson center in could robert maley, ron cspan 2, julius will speak about International Telecommunications policy. Live at 12 30 on our companion network cspan 2. And election news this morning, alan west house conceded to powder murphy, putting an end to one of the most expensive house races and the country. The Washington Post writes that after all of the votes were tallied, murphy held a slight lead but his margin was not Strong Enough to trigger an official recount. The republican pressed