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And That’s the Way It Is: A Look Back at 70 Years of TV News

And That’s the Way It Is: A Look Back at 70 Years of TV News

The LaSalle Public Library will virtually host Brian Rose, Professor Emeritus, at Fordham University, on Tuesday, April 18th, at 6:00 p.m. central, for a presentation that looks at the sweeping changes, and examine the impact, both good and bad, of television journalism over the last seven decades.

Television news has undergone remarkable transformations in the last seven decades. Beginning with the Camel News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze in 1948, evening newscasts drew tens of millions of viewers nightly, and expanded from 15-minutes to 30-minutes when Walter Cronkite became the anchor of the CBS Evening News in 1963. With the launch of CNN in 1980, TV news expanded to 24 hours a day, seven days a week—and a new era in television journalism was born. Americans no longer had to wait until 6:30 p.m. to get their news but could tune in any time to find out what was happening, all over the world. In 1996, TV news would change once again with the launch of two new 24/7 cable channels: MSNBC and six months later the Fox News Channel, which introduced a more partisan approach to news coverage that would have enormous implications on American political life.

Brian Rose is a professor emeritus at Fordham University, where he taught for 38 years in the Department of Communication and Media Studios. He has written several books on television history and cultural programming and has conducted more than a hundred conversations with leading directors, actors, and writers for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Screen Actors Guild, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Directors Guild of America. His virtual lectures on film and television history have been presented at the Smithsonian, the 92nd St. Y., and at JCCs, and libraries throughout the country.

This program is free and open to the public. It will be presented via Zoom. Register – https://bit.ly/3nkEydy. For more information, please call the Library at 815-223-2341.

LaSalle Public Library
https://bit.ly/3nkEydy
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM on Tue, 18 Apr 2023
LaSalle Public Library
305 Marquette Street
LaSalle, Illinois 61301
815-223-2341
dmblomquist@lasalle.lib.il.us