Was there a clear moment in American history where TV news clearly signaled a rise of new power structures? Newspapers having some sort of industry-wide fight against TV?

by BUBBA_BOY

I know the go-to example of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate, but it seems more happenstance than anything contrived. Instead I'm hoping for a more specific power shift along cultural, generational, ideological, economic, or regional lines.

I'm reasonably sure we're witnessing TV networks beginning to lose narrative control to "the internet" and I'm hoping there's some previous material to compare to and draw insight from.

The_Alaskan

You might want to take a look through this AMA we had three months ago with Charles L. Ponce de Leon, author of That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America.