Fox & Friends vs. The First Amendment
Just the beginning We’ve been at The Guardian, a newspaper most Americans probably have not heard of, but a newspaper which is now on the cutting edge of the Rupert Murdoch scandal. If you are a Fox News viewer,...
Read moreBBC3 – Roger and Rwanda – 10 Years After
BBC iPlayer does not embed -sorry Last night BBC3 ran Roger: Genocide Baby at 9PM. It was pretty good. It must have cost them a fair amount to make. I would embed it here, but they don’t allow that,...
Read moreHenry VIII, Hans Holbein, Facebook and Gilligan
“in a relationship” The painting above is of Anne of Cleves, done by Hans Holbein the Younger in 1539. Holbein had been dispatched to Germany by Henry VIII, who was contemplating marrying Anne, sight unseen. Henry sent Holbein to...
Read moreVideo Training in London
This week in London Last week, as you know, we were in Geneva training the UNHRC to shoot and edit their own video. This week, we’re in London running the Guardian Media Academy, a partnership with The Guardian, the...
Read moreThe Case for Public Broadcasting
going… going.. gone… There is a scandal going on in Britain. Nothing like this has been seen since the days of Watergate. A newspaper’s unrelenting investigative reporting has already brought down one newspaper, and it’s just the beginning. Before...
Read moreWelcome to The Edit Suite (in the hall)
Here is what a ‘professional’ TV video editing suite looks like. It costs about $500,000. It’s very complicated – and hard to move around. We are here in Geneva this week at UN headquarters. We’ve trained and equipped...
Read moreChris Christie to NJ: Drop Dead
Closing the door… With a population of more than 8 million people, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the USA It is also the second wealthiest state in the country, when measured by median income. Thus...
Read moreFinding Bibi – A Young Iranian Filmmaker’s Success
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPX7AfbCVBY&feature=spotlight[/youtube] Bita Haidarian, an award-winning Iranian American filmmaker fresh out of film school, sets off on a journey around the world to answer the big questions – who am I, where do I come from, and where can...
Read moreHow Video Can Save Lives
Just one of 20,000 Somali refugees who have arrived in Kenya this week… The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and...
Read moreTeaching the UN to Shoot: Why Hope CNN Shows Up?
We are here in Geneva this week training Public Information Officers for the UN who work for UNHCR – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. These people have come to Geneva from all over the world – Congo...
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