| Description |
No industry is more informational than the news industry. Most daily metropolitan newspapers and wire service bureaus have been using computers for several years to write, edit, and store copy. But very few broadcast stations use computers in their news operations. Television news in particular has been slow to accept them. Only a fraction of the more than eight-hundred commercial television stations in the United States have computerized newsrooms, i.e., use computers at the minimum to write, edit, and store scripts. It is surprising that an industry which boasts sophisticated tools such as ENG (electronic-news-gathering) equipment and helicopters seems to be avoiding computers. |
