During the 50s and 60s, newspapers started developing an inferiority complex to television after being scooped so much by the electronic media. Some misguided TV reporters, the late, very smug Wayne Satz of KABC, Los Angeles comes to mind, treated print journalists like inferiors. At many press conferences, electronic journalists would be seated first, and given the best seats while print journalists had to settle for what was leftover.
As a result, if a TV newsperson took a newspaper job, it was considered something of a "coup", like a man "stepping down" in stature. It wasn't true, but that was the feeling among many in both forms of media.
There was an episode of Lou Grant where the Trib takes on a young college student intern, who was one of the guys in class who had to take a "leftover" internship at the paper because all of the TV internships had been taken, and he comes in very disgruntled. By the end of the episode, he's very impressed with how newspapers really work and is now considering a career in print journalism.
With the advent of new media, I don't feel that those petty complexes exist anymore, and that there's more co-operation now than there's ever been.
I always thought that the FCC rule outlawing ownership of a newspaper and TV station in the same market was a stupid rule.
