"Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene"
- Connie Chung
About this Quote
This quote by Connie Chung speaks to the competitive nature of the media market. It recommends that in today's world, news stories are quickly picked up and spread by different outlets. As quickly as a story is heard, it is quickly distributed by radio, television, newspapers, and other media outlets. This quote also speaks to the significance of being the very first to report a story. It suggests that if a media outlet is not the first to report a story, they will be left behind in the race to cover it. This quote is a tip of the requirement for media outlets to be fast and efficient in order to stay ahead of the competition.
This quote is written / told by Connie Chung somewhere between August 20, 1946 and today. She was a famous Journalist from USA.
The author also have 16 other quotes.
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"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"
"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"
"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"
