According to a report from the New York Times, CBS is considering a partnership with CNN that would have the cable news network provide content to the network once represented by Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. If you read the story you see that these talks are very preliminary and that there’s plenty of room for this to unravel. I bring it up because it connects to some of my theories about how media changes are playing out.
We’re already seeing the blurring of lines between cable and network TV news. MSNBC started that process and this CBS/CNN deal would keep it going. Eventually, the lines between TV and Internet news, indeed the line between TV and the Internet, will blur until we have a new kind of screen in our house that serves both functions.
I don’t know if Katie Couric will be on this FutureScreen but I guess we’ll all find out soon enough. All I know is that they need to figure out how to keep this screen humming when God drops two feet of snow on Balsam Township, Minnesota.
UPDATE: CBS and CNN are denying the reports, or at least downplaying them. I’m betting they were talking about this but that it leaked way too early.
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