news and talk programs. i didn t set out to be joan of arc, but i think that what happened to me deserves some attention. christine craft had a very successful career, but there she was in her late 30s and the tv station said to her, we re taking you off the air because you ve gotten older and you re not as attractive as you once were, which was outrageous. and she decided to make an issue of it. she filed a lawsuit, and it became a huge national topic of discussion. a jury said she got a raw deal because she is a woman. and so women in television news everywhere were asked, what do you think about christine craft? i think unfortunately in recent years, the emphasis has been increasingly on physical appearance, and to the extent this decision helped swing the emphasis back to substance and to good journalism, i think we ve got something to be happy about. it was important to make the point that what mattered was what kind of reporter are you? but it took the christine cra
it s television s primetime, prairie pot boiler, dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil, and it ll ruin our family name. i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of the weekly, one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s, and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, jr, which slut are you going to stay with tonight? what difference does it make? whoever it is, it s got to be more interesting than the slut i m looking at right now. he was such a delicious villain. everyone was completely enamored by this character. at this point, so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. who s there?
it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over, dad. here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. good! [ laughs ] we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us.
conversation out into the open. this coming sunday, a new television network opens for business cnn. cable news network. you re throwing all the dice on this one? why not? nothing ventured, nothing gained. faint heart never won fair lady. well, on that original point, mr. turner, thank you very much indeed. i wanted to see what was going on in the world. and there was no way that you could do it watching the regular television stations. the news only comes on at 6:00 and 10:00. but if there was news on 24 hours, people could watch it any time. we sign on on june 1, and barring satellite problems in the future, we won t be signing off until the world ends. there was a widespread belief this was a fool s errand. how can this possibly find an audience? well, he did. ready camera three. one center up. good evening. i m david walker. and i m lois harp. now here s the news. president carter has arrived television news before this
the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. good evening, i m pat buchanan, the conservative in crossfire. the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly came to came to cnn in droves. mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples of the soviet union and the united states. we began to realize that the best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have the president go in the rose garden and make a statement. because everybody was watching cnn. cnn was a breakthrough. it changed the whole world. it changed quickly, 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,