Memorials

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his name would be fitting for todays News...

Mudd on how news reporting has changed
“You know, it used to be with the three networks and then maybe three or four. And then came deregulation. And then it was 20 channels, and then it was 50. And now it’s how many, 500 channels? And cable. And there’s a channel for everybody in America, virtually. And so, as a consequence, with the competition being what it is, attention being shorter and shorter, and the pie, which used to be cut up into three or four pieces, is now slivers of 500, and everybody has to make the pie a little sweeter to hold the audience. And so, as a consequence – at least in my view – the quality of news broadcasting has declined, because of the pressure to hold the audience, to keep the audience interested, because that remote can pop off to 500 different places.” – from a 2008 interview with Brian Lamb for C-Span
https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/roger-mudd-1928-2021-meet-the-press-host-and-nbc-nightly-news-anchor/

RIP, Mr. Mudd.