Learning to Speak Video
Video is a language. It is a way we communicate ideas with one another. It is a relatively new language. English is 1,400 years old. Hebrew is 3,000 years old. Video is a little more than 70 years old,...
Read moreThe Power of iPhones for TV Journalism
More and more TV news organizations are starting to equip their MMJs with iPhones or smartphones. This makes a lot of sense — the phones shoot 4K video, they edit, they can add graphics and music and they...
Read moreNo News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us...
Read moreWhat TV News Could Be
When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only model that the world had of what a book was supposed to look like. Gutenberg could have printed...
Read moreWhat Is News? What Should it Be?
This morning, The Washington Post ran an article explaining Sinclair Broadcasting’s approach to local news. Their focus, by mandate from their Chairman David Smith, is to focus on crime, homelessness, illegal drug use, and other societal ills. Sinclair annually polls...
Read moreHow To Save TV News & Why It’s Essential
You may not be aware of it, but the Earth is actually flat. No one ever landed on the moon. The whole moon landing was part of a massive hoax perpetrated by NASA. Zionists apparently control the entire US...
Read moreAI and Journalism — The Real Danger
Artificial Intelligence represents an enormous threat to society in general and journalism in particular, but not in the way that you imagine. Deeply influenced by our addiction to movies and video, we perceive the threat of AI through the...
Read moreWhy iPhones Change TV News
Listen: “I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers” -Thomas J. Watson, Chairman, IBM. 1943 Before computers came along, Thomas J. Watson...
Read moreNo News is Bad News
After a year away from New York, we came back for a few days. I like printed newspapers. I understand that this makes me old, but I am old. For the past 20 years that I lived in Midtown...
Read moreSome Advice for Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson, courtesy Wiki Commons Tucker Carlson, until recently the host of Fox News’ most popular show, was unceremoniously fired this week. We don’t know why he was fired, but there is plenty of explanation in the mediaverse —...
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