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Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

But print reporters dig up the stories that play on TV

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 2, 2008 7:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – Twenty-four-hour cable networks set the news agenda by turning stories "from brushfire to raging conflagration," Paul Farhi writes in the American Journalism Review. Particularly during presidential campaigns, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pull stories from newspapers and web sites and make them hot... Read full story »

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