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This CBS interview with James Lipton is good, but it isn't the CBS Sunday Morning feature Peter Zollman was looking for. |
It was a "this can't be right" moment. Someone, please, show me I'm wrong.
CBS Sunday Morning may be the best news show on television. A couple of weeks ago, it carried a superb piece on the art of conversation -- one that I wanted to send to a friend. So, logically, I went to CBSNews.com to look for it.
It's not there. Or maybe it is -- but I certainly couldn't find it.
They carry a text version of the piece. But it's not the same; it loses a lot in translation from full-motion video and, well, conversation, to a text article.
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Next, I searched CBSNews.com videos for the word "conversation." Sure enough, there was a
four-minute chunk of conversation between correspondent
Erin Moriarty and
James Lipton, the excellent conversationalist who talks about the craft of acting on the TV program "Inside the Actors Studio." It was a great piece, but it didn't hold a candle to the edited, well-constructed piece on Sunday Morning.
Why on earth wouldn't CBS News make the Sunday Morning packages available on its site, like NBC, ABC, and (for that matter) most of the material from its other news shows?
That's just one instance of CBS's questionable web strategy. The...
