Beat the Press
BY
SHELDON DROBNY co-founder of AirAmerica Radio
I am writing this piece with the full knowledge that it will never be published in any major newspaper or broadcast outlet. As the co-founder of Air America Radio, I am hopeful that our network will pick this up and pass the word around.
The movie Network was made in the seventies and was very prophetic about what news departments are now doing in broadcast media, especially television. In that movie, the news division of a fictional TV network was taken over by the corporate heads. Prior to that, the news division had a