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Neil Budde: TV shows measured. Now every single page and click is trackable. "And that's really what's changing the economics of this business . . . .Each piece of content is now available and selectable by the user, and that get's measured." | |||
Hayward: "He's solid inthe journalsit sense. The evidence he shows is verifiable. And he also devotes more resources to the stories he focuses on than most news organizations." | |||
Koppel: "Jon Stewart is to television news what a great editorial cartoonist is to a newspaper. If you are going to look at a great editorial cartoon and think you have grasped everything that a story is about, you're missing something." | |||
"What troubles me about Jon, is not his program, it is that so many young people look at that and operate under the illusion that they are getting a full newscast . . . part of the problem today is that the full newscasts are not full newscasts." | |||
Morning Edition has more audience than any of the morning network TV shows -- about 16 million listeners in a given week, Schiller said. | |||
"Money affects what a business does, and we have discovered we are just like any ohter business -- but we're not. ... it is there to inform the public and inform the public on issues that may or may not be entertaining. And sometimes we are going to have to be a little bit dull." | |||
Revision as of 17:54, 12 March 2009
Earlier story: http://wwww.mediagiraffe.org/stonybrook
This afternoon's panel:
- Neil Budde, president, chief product officer, DailyMe.com
- Vivian Schiller, CEO, NPR
- Andrew Hayward, retired CBS News president
- Ted Koppel, former anchor, ABC News and managing editor, Discovery Channel
- Alexandra Wallance, senior vp, NBC News
Neil Budde: TV shows measured. Now every single page and click is trackable. "And that's really what's changing the economics of this business . . . .Each piece of content is now available and selectable by the user, and that get's measured."
Hayward: "He's solid inthe journalsit sense. The evidence he shows is verifiable. And he also devotes more resources to the stories he focuses on than most news organizations."
Koppel: "Jon Stewart is to television news what a great editorial cartoonist is to a newspaper. If you are going to look at a great editorial cartoon and think you have grasped everything that a story is about, you're missing something."
"What troubles me about Jon, is not his program, it is that so many young people look at that and operate under the illusion that they are getting a full newscast . . . part of the problem today is that the full newscasts are not full newscasts."
Morning Edition has more audience than any of the morning network TV shows -- about 16 million listeners in a given week, Schiller said.
"Money affects what a business does, and we have discovered we are just like any ohter business -- but we're not. ... it is there to inform the public and inform the public on issues that may or may not be entertaining. And sometimes we are going to have to be a little bit dull."
