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Eric Deggans
Rules change when sales managers become TV station bosses
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 18, 2008 - 10:35amWith a preponderance of sales managers becoming TV station general managers, the pressure to squeeze more money out of understaffed stations and the flood of veterans leaving the industry -- leaving younger executives with less grounding in ethics.
Political coverage is more noise than news
Submitted by Benton Foundation on April 23, 2008 - 7:15amLast updated: April 23, 2008 - 7:16am
After months spent consuming endless cable TV news coverage of this endless presidential campaign, I've got a theory: The more attention they pay to a subject, the less viewers actually learn.
