Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way — When Broadcast Dominance Broke
What happens when an institution built around mass reach and public responsibility loses the environment that made its dominance possible?
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Using Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way by Ken Auletta as our lens, this investigation traces the transformation of ABC, CBS, and NBC as technological disruption, corporate ownership, Wall Street pressure, changing regulation, and expanding viewer choice destabilized the old three-network television system.
Auletta documents a genuine tension. The networks…
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