that tomorrow s. in the 80s, women came into the newsroom. when i first joined, it was 72, and there were very few. by the 80s, there were more and more. the decade of the 80s was still a time of sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didn t think women had what it took. these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting, all of whom happen to be women. the best producers, i m gonna get fired the best producers at cbs news are women. and they are at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they re not yet executive producers of all the news shows, but they will be. for the past 24 hours, christine craft has taken her cause to many of the nation s 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 la
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, 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 the 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
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. 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.
different fare. cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. people love news. and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. new york city, hello. the major catastrophe in america s space program i am lou dobbs along with financial editor myron kandel. jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days in a dry artesian well. the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. good evening, it s patrick buchanan, the conservative on crossfire. the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly 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
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