another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center. and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition. a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public. this is not about profit and loss. the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. if the television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be any more television news on the networks. i worry about people only interested in money and power getting a hold of television. it has higher purposes than that. we have seen the news, and it is us. be brilliant. be powerful. be the diamond yo
the network news business. that business that we weren t the only ones. and it was hard. you know, it s hard to be on the top little perch and have to come down off it. a special segment tonight, the network news. the first in a two-part series on the profound changes taking place in television news. changes being brought about by business, competition, and technology. there are a variety of reasons why people who worked at the broadcast networks were freaked out in 1980s. one of them was cnn and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new owners spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center. and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc and abc, they were part of a really proud tradition.
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there s no saving your home in winds approaching that speed. if anyone can, however, it s the fire crews who are going to work right now tonight. this by the way is where they re living. lap of luxury as usual. and while most will tell you they ll sleep when they re dead, they ve got to rest because like the fires they re fighting, it takes nothing for an eight-hour shift to explode into 12 or 24. and one more time because this is important, we have admitted the obvious here before. there is geographic dysmorphia at work in the coverage of these fires. network news divisions are still headquartered out here in the east. to be more exact, we are all just blocks away from each other. and make no mistake, if we could smell this smoke in midtown, manhattan, if these were our homes in danger, our families being evacuated, live coverage would air perhaps at times in a split screen alongside impeachment coverage all day and all night.
danger. the santa ana winds are going to blow up there around 11:00 local time tonight. gusts could hit 80 miles an hour. for perspective, most humans cannot stand up unassisted in 80-mile-an-hour winds. imagine how far they can throw an ember, how far and how fast fire could run down a hillside. put another way, there s no saving that hillside. there s no saving your home in winds approaching that speed. if anyone can, however, it s the fire crews who are going to work right now tonight. this by the way is where they re living. lap of luxury as usual. and while most will tell you they ll sleep when they re dead, they ve got to rest because like the fires they re fighting, it takes nothing for an eight-hour shift to explode into 12 or 24. and one more time because this is important, we have admitted the obvious here before. there is geographic dysmorphia at work in the coverage of these fires. network news divisions are still