This week’s 10 Plus 1 subject on Public Eye, CBS senior assignment editor Martin Gill, has a great answer to this question:
| If you could change one thing about the profession of journalism, what would it be? The overuse of ‘Exclusive’ and ‘Breaking News’ — two phrases that are misused and abused in our business. Too many times I see that ‘Exclusive’ on someone else’s air that same hour or same day. And ‘Breaking News’ is at that moment, not three hours after the event occurred. |
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