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Local News: There’s No Place Like Home

When news director Keith Connors goes home to Ashtabula, Ohio, for Christmas, he is struck by the contrast with booming Charlotte and realizes why he left to cover news in other people’s communities. His former reporter, Bea Thompson, made the opposite bargain, forsaking opportunities elsewhere to serve the city in which she grew up. After Connors orchestrates his news team’s coverage of the turn of the millennium, he and the viewers are left to wonder: is WCNC’s experiment a shining hope for television journalism or an impossible dream? (58 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29254
Copyright date: ©2001
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-4149-7
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-6578-3

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