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People, Personas, and Politics 31 – Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 19, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: In the 60s, they were probably at least in the top 3 sources of people’s news. Most people were still reading newspapers, but most people were also watching the half-our nightly news broadcasts. Those things didn’t have to make money. They were a public service. Everything else was designed to make money. Anyway, then things changed, people noticed that if you put on morning news and you made it a 3-hour happy news kind of sunny people in the morning Today Show with the late 50s and David Garroway, he had a co-anchor who was a chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs. [Laughing] Any time you’ve got a co-anchor who is a monkey then you’re doing news wrong. People noticed these 2 and 3 hour news broadcasts were making a butt load of money. Then the whole Iranian hostage crisis, which begins under Carter in 1978 or 1979, and ABC starts running Nightline. It began as a half-hour update on the hostage situation 5 nights a week. It ran after the local news. Then you had CNN come online in the 80s. As the—so in the beginning in the late 70s and 80s, people begin realizing that you can make news jazzy, and you can expand it. You can make a lot of money off of local news. You can make money off certain national news shows. Eventually, CNN started making money, then around 1986 you have Fox News come one. Roger Ailes noticed that – the evil blowfish Roger Ailes – you can use a news channel as propaganda. So for 20 years and more, T.V. news was not profit driven. Now, it is crazily profit driven. [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 |