“And That's the Way It Is,” A Look Back at 70 Years of TV News

Tuesday, January 24 at 7 PM “And That's the Way It Is,” A Look Back at 70 Years of TV News with Brian Rose. [Online]

Television news has undergone remarkable transformations in the last seven decades. Brian Rose will present from the Camel News Caravan to Walter Cronkite who became the anchor of the CBS Evening News to 24-hour news cycle 7 days a week. We will learn about MSNBC and Fox News Channel, which introduced a more partisan approach to news coverage that would have enormous implications for American political life. This presentation will look at these sweeping changes and examine the impact--both good and bad--of television journalism over the last seven decades. 

BRIAN ROSE is a professor emeritus at Fordham University, where he taught for 38 years in the

Department of Communication and Media Studies. He’s written several books on television history and cultural programming, and conducted more than a hundred Q&A’s 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.

Free. Sponsored by the Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven, West Tisbury, and Chilmark Libraries. Email your local library for the Zoom access, or for more information.