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People, Personas, and Politics 30 – ‘Why is News an Industry?’ Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 18, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: You had another question. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I did, a few. Th news, you mentioned a little while ago, has become industry. So much of news… RR: …hold on, hold on, hold on, we should discuss why it wasn’t an industry for a long time. We should discuss why it wasn’t an industry for a long time because the news business was a business. You are in the news to make a ton of money, which make sense. Even a town as small as Albuquerque when it was 80,000, 100,000, or 150,000 people, had a morning and evening newspaper, Denver when I was growing up had a couple newspapers. Plus, there was a Boulder newspaper. New York probably had 30 newspapers simultaneously at various points in its history. They made money through the crappy forms of “yellow” journalism. That was the term for shitty sensationalistic journalism. It was called yellow journalism based on a comic strip called “The Yellow Kid” because used to buy newspaper based on what comic strips they had. SDJ: [Laughing]. RR: “The Yellow Kid” was the kid in a night shirt with a buck tooth. He was yellow. SDJ: [Laughing]. RR: It showed the newspaper was full colour. So people wanted to buy it, “Look! Our newspaper is in full color.” And if the newspaper got distributed, then great. In the late 40s, the first national T.V. networks went on around 1948 in America. At the time, the U.S. government has always owned the air waves. The frequency bands on which T.V. used to be broadcast. Now, most T.V. is not broadcast T.V. There are broadcast networks: ABC, NBC, CBS. But even those networks, most people get stuff through cable. In 1948, everything travelled via radio wavs to people’s T.V. antennas down from the roof into the T.V.s. The government owned the frequencies. They owned the radio and T.V. bands. The government said, “We will lease you these bands at super cheap rates because you are going to provide a public service.” One thing they did was daily news casts in order to get these deals on broadcast bands. So the T.V. shows would do 15 minute nightly news shows, which became 30 minute news shows. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |