Out of Thin Air: Insider's History of Network News-the Beginning and the End
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671677586 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fascinating story" according to Frank D. Banta. Reuven Frank authored my favorite quote regarding news: "News is what someone wants to repress. Everything else is advertising". To me nothing defines major media news coverage more accurately than that quote. On the basis of that quote I got Frank's book "Out of Thin Air".As two-time president of NBC News Frank speaks with authority regarding the history of primarily TV news. His insight and experience as one of the great i
. During the early 1950s, the philosophy of evening news was that viewers already knew about the headline stories and should merely be shown pictures about them; then came the era when the medium presented the news; now, in Frank's view, network coverage is back where it started. When Frank retired 38 years later, he had been a producer of many programs, including the fabulously successful Huntley-Brinkley evening news; the creator of award-winning documentaries; and ultimately the president of the NBC news division. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The book's revelations about executive maneuverings, hirings and firings will likely interest only insiders, while Frank's observations about some of the stars of TV news are courteous alb
Frank gives readers a revealing look at how hit-or-miss the development of TV news was--and what a seat-of-the-pants adventure creating the news turned out to be.. Studded with personal anecdotes, this is the inside story of the people and events that shaped the way TV reports the news. Out of Thin Air is the story of the news behind the news