The News Used to End

Jeff Greenfield on the Reliable Sources podcast:

“If you go back to Watergate, once Walter Cronkite and co. signed off at 7:30 on the East Coast back then, the next news you got was when the morning paper hit your door. You could watch PBS’s replay of the Watergate hearings but basically that was it.”

“We would not immediately switch to five hours of frenetic analysis or opinion making. We did not have a bombardment of social media and tweets, so the whole process of unfolding the story, of finding out what happened, was in a much more deliberative phase…”