NBC noted this week that Olympic viewership is down 22 percent since Nagano in 1998. At the same time, the World Series is down 21 percent, and the Academy Awards down 27 percent.
More people watched American Idol than the Olympics.
They say that newspapers are about to go bankrupt because of the Internet. People who can get up to the minute news don't want "what happened today" news off the newsstand.
Headline TV News may be next.
The Internet is interactive - you can look at a news story, then google past references, geopolitical data, or just the names of the victims. TV is still a "preacher" - you get what they give.
The Internet is also edgier - the anonyminity of bloggers means the editorials are a lot juicier, and therefore more appealing/enraging.
CNN - you were an innovation, and now your time has gone.
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