{"id":13077,"date":"2008-08-31T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T13:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/it-is-a-telling-sign-that-cbs-news-didnt-invest\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T13:42:21","slug":"it-is-a-telling-sign-that-cbs-news-didnt-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/it-is-a-telling-sign-that-cbs-news-didnt-invest\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is a telling sign that CBS News didn\u2019t invest in the usual sky box for its anchor, Katie Couric, in Denver. It is equally telling that CNN consistently beat ABC and CBS in last week\u2019s Nielsen ratings, and NBC as well by week\u2019s end. But now that media are being transformed at a speed comparable to the ever-doubling power of microchips, cable\u2019s ascendancy could also be as short-lived as, say, the reign of AOL. Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum, which monitors the intersection of politics and technology, points out that when networks judge their success by who got the biggest share of the television audience, \u201cthey are still counting horses while the world has moved on to counting locomotives.\u201d The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all 20th-century media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/31\/opinion\/31rich.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Obama Outwits the Bloviators<\/a> &#8211; Op-Ed &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a telling sign that CBS News didn\u2019t invest in the usual sky box for its anchor, Katie Couric, in Denver. It is equally telling that CNN consistently beat ABC and CBS in last week\u2019s Nielsen ratings, and NBC as well by week\u2019s end. 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