Mike390430499, that ratio is interesting to look at for newscasts all around, and it probably varies from era to era and now widely among news outlets because there are so many with different focuses. But it wouldn't tell you what Walter Cronkite was all about. See, bad news is "news" because it's different from the things that happen every day. Which is something to be thankful about in itself.
What made his type of journalism different from what we are used to today would be to look at the ratio of important stories to fluff and filler. And that would put 21st century journalism at a disadvantage, because newscasts today have to fill 24 hours a day and several channels. In Cronkite's era of an hour of news per day max, there wasn't room for anything that wasn't important. In many ways, that made following the news easier for the viewer. But networks could expand coverage when needed, for big events like a political assassination or war or a moon landing. And those are the things we remember years later.
Carl, have you tried parking your photographs on a different site, like Flickr? Photographs use a LOT of bandwidth. I ran over my allotment every month until I found other places to host the pictures.
How much time a woman takes off work for childbirth has everything to do with money and not much to do with health. If she gets paid maternity leave, she takes it. If not, she either goes back to work or takes as much time off as she can afford to not be paid.
What made his type of journalism different from what we are used to today would be to look at the ratio of important stories to fluff and filler. And that would put 21st century journalism at a disadvantage, because newscasts today have to fill 24 hours a day and several channels. In Cronkite's era of an hour of news per day max, there wasn't room for anything that wasn't important. In many ways, that made following the news easier for the viewer. But networks could expand coverage when needed, for big events like a political assassination or war or a moon landing. And those are the things we remember years later.
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