and loews-tisch brothers buying cbs. dynamite company. >> there's a danger that news will be mixed up with the rest of television and considered just another profit center. >> late 1920s, to early 1930s, to the early 1980s, the sense was, we'll give some of the broadcasting time to public service. but 1990s, journalism in the country changed a great deal. you couldn't talk about public service. it was, what are the ratings going to be? what are the demographics going to be? what is the profit going to be? well, sensationalism sells. >> in a plea bargain, 18-year-old amy fisher got up to 15 years in prison for shooting the wife of her alleged lover. >> so intense is the interest in this case that there are three, three made for tv-movies now in the works about it. >> you make money off sex. you make money off death. you make money off crime. >> the press calls the case the beverly hills mansion murders. and the story reads like one of the unsold scripts that circulate here in hollywood. >> we enter into the world of the t