"Assignment: The Cable News Battle"
Journal article
By: James Snyder
Date: 1997
Source: Snyder, James. "Assignment: The Cable News Battle." Television Quarterly 28, no. 4, 1997, 49–53.
About the Author: James Snyder has been a news writer, reporter, CBS News producer, and radio and TV news director. He contributes to Television Quarterly regularly. Snyder was the vice president of news for the Post Newsweek Stations for 22 years.
Introduction
Network news traditionally covered the nation and the world, leaving local news for the affiliate newsrooms to handle. The networks also relied on the personality and style of one or two anchors to define their broadcast and to be identified with the news program. These factors changed when the cable news channels began to enter the market.
In the early years of cable news, CNN did not affect the format or the choice of anchors on the...
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