Mar 252013
from truthdig
"I am not sure exactly when the death of television news took place. The descent was gradual — a slide into the tawdry, the trivial and the inane, into the charade on cable news channels such as Fox and MSNBC in which hosts hold up corporate political puppets to laud or ridicule, and treat celebrity foibles as legitimate news. But if I had to pick a date when commercial television decided amassing corporate money and providing entertainment were its central mission, when it consciously chose to become a carnival act, it would probably be Feb 25, 2003, when MSNBC took Phil Donahue off the air because of his opposition to the calls for war in Iraq. …"
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Many believe that it happened 40 years earlier, during a Huntley-Brinkley interview with JFK, during which the President asked for a "do-over" on a question he felt he had handled poorly. In any event, 2003 is much, much too late a date.