As Exciting as Watching Cookies Bake….
Tonight! Most Haunted Castles of Denmark!! I was reading Cynopsis this morning and it made me think: Next month, TLC brings back its reality series Table for 12 chronicling the abundant Hayes family, with all-new back-to-back episodes starting November 10 at 8p and...
Read moreHigh Tech Artisians
Hand made high tech Yesterday, as part of my ‘birthday surprise’, Lisa took me to the airport where we got on a small prop plane and headed off to parts unknown. The unknown part turned out to be  Bar...
Read moreWaking Up to Salgado
This morning I woke up to Sebastao Salgado. or at least a print by him… being held up by my wife. Today is my birthday, and at this age, it is something I would rather forget than remember, but...
Read moreTCA Advanced Courses Kick Off in DC
The hard working Arthur Hsu, liason to the Grads Yesterday we kicked off our first advanced course for the Travel Channel Academy down here in DC at Travel Channel HQ. We had been thinking of running a series of...
Read moreBecket and Net Neutrality – Unbar The Door!
Unbar the door! Last night we stayed home and watched the movie Becket, with Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole. Great film. It’s a historical drama based on fact. Â Henry II, Norman King of England elevates his friend and drinking...
Read moreFrom TCA to CNN in One Step
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ZXCbHKET8[/youtube] Off to a VERY good start In September, artist Eric Afredo took the Travel Channel Academy course in NY. Although he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, Eric says he wanted to move to NY to ’emmerse [myself] in the...
Read moreWhy Journalism Failed
The last bastion of Feudalism in the US If you went to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the odds are you could just as easily have gone to Columbia University’s Law School instead. Had you gone there, however,...
Read moreA New Kind of Journalism
Net assets: 1.3 billion U.S. dollars When I went to Columbia University the great hero of broadcast journalism was Edward R Murrow. When I went to work at CBS, Murrow’s visage stared out at me in the lobby. Â At...
Read moreAn Epitaph for American Journalism
The Graduate School of Journalism today released its long-awaited report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Leonard Downie Jr., and Prof. Michael Schudson. You can read the whole thing here. It is, in a word, terrible. It is terrible because...
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