ABSTRACT
I’m going to tell you a story and after I tell it, you will know all there is to know about television news . . . The executives of this station [in New York] were watching all three news shows one night. There had been a fire in a Roman Catholic orphanage on Staten Island. One executive complained that a rival station had better film coverage. ‘Their flames are higher than ours’, he said. But another executive countered: ‘Yes, but our nun is crying harder than theirs.’
