Apple News Has 700 Million Bureaus; CBS News has 19
Theverge.com reported today that Apple has now sold more than 700 million iPhones worldwide. (The photo is theirs). That is a LOT of iPhones. (Buy Apple shares, before the Watch hits the street). Those 700 million iPhones are more...
Read moreCBS is Just Pathetic… PATHETIC!
CBS News announced with great fanfare that their correspondent Margaret Brennan (above) had “Produced, shot and reported live from Baghdad!” Here’s the story from Media Bistro: On her iPad!!! Amazing!! What an achievement!!! The video is… in a word…...
Read more60 Minutes Fails to Deliver
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jibdeQbh6Rw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Hello? Hello? Anyone home over there? Last week, 60 Minutes, the CBS News program initiated an interesting idea. Shoot a video, tell us what you think or what questions you have and we’ll air and answer them. Fair...
Read moreCBS News Fires Its Best Cameramen
Even a blind person can now see what is coming… Yesterday, CBS News fired most of its professional camera staff in its London bureau. From now on, stories will be shot by producers. This is not to say that...
Read moreWhen In Rome…
Pick up the white man’s burden… Today’s lesson is ‘old habit die hard’. This afternoon I had lunch with my old friend Peter Klein, who I have not seen in years. Peter was a producer for 60 Minutes, and...
Read moreLara Logan Makes The Case for Citizen Journalists
Ed Murrow does the cheesecake shot in Korea… Over the last 3 days Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s. That means that, in effect, there are now 1.7 million more video camera/edit software/upload units in the world than there...
Read moreWho Is Going To Cover The News?
Wikileaks breaks a story on Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) censorship. NYU prof Clay Shirky does not blog often, but when he does it is required reading. Shirky makes the point that the Gutenberg analogy is easy. It’s...
Read moreA Model for a New Journalism
Harness the power that is already out there. New technologies are a bitch. They’re a bitch because you can’t argue with them – or even have a rational discussion. When automobiles were invented at the turn of the century,...
Read moreThe Awful Power of Technology
Maybe you should think about computer programming… In 1911, Britainia ruled the waves and Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. It was the apex of the British Empire. The sun never set on the Empire and Britain’s...
Read more60 Minutes is a Pile of Crap
CBS News ‘correspondent’ Lara Logan posing as a reporter… A few days ago we ran a clip from Newswipe, a BBC parody of ‘news programs’. It was funny. But last night 60 Minutes ran a segment on the war...
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