Television Reporters and The Art of Telling a Story

The way Walter Kronkite handled the broadcast of the JFK assassination spoke to the time period in which it fell under. Although to us it seems like a joke, the way the reporters were fumbling with the telephone, and seemed unprepared and unprofessional, but technology has come a long way for NBC today, and it was important to learn from. Although NBC's reporters did not do a picture perfect job with the broadcast, it was still apparent they did the best they could with the circumstances at hand.