Re(5): Did Lucy Kiss Him Good-Bye? Posted on January 30, 2022 at 04:41:07 PM by rippin and readin
Great post! Thanks for puttin the effort. Reminded me of my early radio days when morning radio people spent a half hour rewriting the paper's enterprise stories. Rip and Readers could wait a couple hours but then it was too late to put the Star's content on muring drive. Couple hours later, AP would have put em on the wire but without sourcing the star. That ws the deal AP had with papers. Sometimes before that, I credited the paper, sometimes I didn't. Didnt' want it to sound like all we did was quote the paper every morning. And then in TV, well whatever the paper broke for their morning edition, we'd find a 2nd day lead to get a piece of their big stories for 6.
Rachel's more honest about that on MSNBC, she just brings on and interviews the WaPo or NYT reporter who wrote the stories. That was the honest way of using someone else's enterprise stories.
In the old days of TV, before cable penetration and stations were rolling in ad dollars, we had more reporters and WE enterprised stories and the newspaper chased OUR stories. Remember when there was the Star and the morning Times? For a long time, I thought they were competitors and I presume they WERE til the Star bought out the times but itseemed like the two editions had separate staffs and competed. When was that? 60s? Remember when Helling got out of TV and moved over to write for the Star's online edition? I worked in the same shop as he did for quite a while...a real crackerjack reporter. Replies: