11. Jeff Gralnick, ABC New executive producer of convention coverage. 12. No wonder the broadcast networks are planning not much more than four hours of convention coverage. 13. Not only is convention coverage shifting toward the Web, the tools available to media for covering the convention are advancing as well. 14. On the cable side, however, the trend is toward giving viewers more convention coverage, not less. 15. Public indifference is why the television networks, those avid calculators of public opinion, now devote only a few hours to convention coverage. 16. The demand for Internet-based convention coverage is driving news organizations and technology companies into the fray. 17. The media, and the candidates themselves, have not captured public interest, and the reduced network TV convention coverage is one symptom of a wider malaise. 18. The men in charge of Olympic and convention coverage bled their spectacles of nasty old competition to lure female viewers. 19. The Republican and Democratic party chairmen Sunday jointly accused the three major television networks of evading their civic duty by sharply limiting their convention coverage this year. 20. The Web is even infiltrating that august symbol of convention coverage, the skybooth. |
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