When did TV news become "entertainment?"

>>130943120
Every time a happening occurs

Connie Chung, Geraldo Rivera, Diane Sawyer, circa 1988

Why is mossy old broken concrete steps like that the most comfy thing in the entire world

>>130943120
I first noticed it with the Tiger Woods "sex scandal."

Oh wow, a celebrity cheated on their spouse... Better cover that shit 24/7 for the next 8 months. I lost any and all respect for CNN during that time.

>>130943120
When TVs became affordable and idiots started watching it.

>>130944099
this. but it didn't become obvious till within the past decade. before that they at least pretended to be proper news programs

>>130943120
on day one

>>130945870
>it didn't become obvious till within the past decade
t. millennial.
It's been sensationalized bullshit for many decades, but as the viewership gets dumber and dumber it requires more and more sensationalism to keep their attention.

>>130943120
When they came up with the intellectual abortion that is the 24 hour news channel.

>>130943120
qt feet

>>130943120

mid 90s

>>130943120
1977 Roone Arledge was the president of ABC Sports and in 1977 was made president of ABC News.

>>130943120
Gulf War 1

>>130943120
Pearl Harbor? JFK Assassination? Watergate?

Who is this semen demon?

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>>130943120

When all the smart people moved to the internet.