I see two answers to this. One is your Hearst ''yellow journalism" answer, which gives us schlock like "The Insider" & leads to an earlier *CNN. The other is the Ed Murrow answer, a network dedicated to real news in long form, much like the "McNeil-Lehrer Newshour", & leads to something like PBS or BBC.Emperor Norton I said:Perhaps William Randolph Hearst could become the Rupert Murdoch of such a thing. However, I think the contemporary reaction will be that a channel dedicated to news will never, ever turn a profit and is not a good idea.
IMO, the route taken really depends on who does it. If this comes out of CBS, home of Paley & Murrow, it could be the "Newshour" model. If it's Hearst....
If you really want to know what it would look like, look at what radio was doing in the '30s: it was much the same medium, without the pictures... I agree, the images (like the water hoses & the police dogs in the Civil Rights marches) make a big difference. That said, there is no way in hell you'd get live broadcasts from Midway (or anywhere), even if the comm tech existed; there were radio reporters (& documentary film crews) present at many places, & they held the reports for national security. What you might get is better video coverage, & a better understanding of what war is like--something the U.S. military neglected in Vietnam, by denying media access to the front (or maybe it was lazy reporters
It strikes me this may also lead to an earlier explosion in game shows, to fill the time (given all networks, eventually, follow the 24-hour cycle). That implies something like the quiz show scandal in the late '30s or early '40s.
It also implies production of CRTs for radarscopes is faster & easier, & training radar technicians is easier. (I'm less clear if it means radar is better; IDK if the tech spills the other way, too.)
It's likely electronics generally is more advanced. It's also possible videogames are more advanced; a Pong-like game was designed (but never sold commercially) as early as 1953.
That is just so much uninformed fiction.Penny for The Guy said:It was not until the media brought down Nixon
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