If they were presenting it as a kind of celebrity or pop culture profile then your argument is more convincing to me. But I perceived them to be pushing this as a news-breaking piece documenting charges of assault and violation of campaign financing laws in addition to salacious material about the President of the United States. I think they knew they were not going to be scooped by any other outlet doing an interview with her, and I think they had a good bet that the tv audience was not going to dwindle on a story about a porn star talking about her sex night with Trump.
I have always had a related question about 60 Minutes, which is why this is interesting to me. Those guys do sometimes break real news - yet at best they always make us wait until Sunday at 7:00. They do sometimes release clips and quotes (though, interestingly, they refused to do any of that for the Daniels interview, presumably because there was so little news, and so much free PR already). I suspect if the story was about Trump meeting with a Russian gangster in 2007 in his hotel they would not have waited two weeks to check the CCTV footage before running it. On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 6:37 AM Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> wrote: > I am not a journalist, but I'd have thought that holding over something > like this was fine. While CBS may well have just been looking to maximise > the audience, they might also have been taking legal advice, or seeking to > stand up elements of the story. It's a long shot, but wouldn't you at least > try to see if 7 year old parking lot CCTV might have been available? > > In any case, holding onto something like this for ratings purposes is also > a risk. The story could easily have moved on, and they'd have been left > with an interview that didn't fully meet where the story was currently at. > Someone else might have given a rival media outlet a bombshell interview > that left this as an also-ran. > > Journalists can and do sit on stories for periods of time for all sorts of > reasons, including commercial. But the longer you delay, the bigger the > risk that someone beats you to the punch. > > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
