The Insanity Is Still Alive
I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...
Read moreTHE CUL-DE-SAC OF CULTURE
Although we like to credit Gutenberg with the printing press, the concept of movable type actually originated here, in China. During the Ch’ing-li period (1041-1048), an alchemist named Pi Sheng conceived of the notion of movable carved blocks for...
Read moreWhat I Learned from Charles Kuralt
On The Road to making better video…. When we train VJs now, we train them to work in very different ways. One of the ways we differ is that we teach them to lay in all the pictures first...
Read moreVideojournalist in England
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyT__Z8sCAs] In 1993, on the heels of NY1, I was invited to London to help build the London version of NY1, Channel 1. It was the brainchild of the very far-thinking Sir David English and his Associated Newspaper group....
Read moreThe Write Stuff
Did ‘writing for broadcast’ start with him? I was in the back of a taxi this afternoon, and the taxi had a TV in it.
Read moreForeign Correspondents Talk
Speaking at the White House Press Photographer’s Association on how to make the transition from still photographer to videojouranlist, and more significantly, how to earn a living in this new field.
Read moreThe "Other" Long Tail
A room full of ideas for The Travel Channel – what’s it worth? There has been a lot of talk about ‘the long tail’ and the Internet. Chris Anderson’s book has proven something of a talisman to those of...
Read moreThe "Talent" Trap
What’s it worth? The notion of ‘on air talent’ represents an interesting dilema for local and network news, particularly as video heads for the non-linear web.
Read moreNews Out of Spokane
He made the leap… The transition from crews to VJs is going slowly at TV stations, but it is on fire in the newspaper world.
Read moreCouric v. Halberstam
David Halberstam – Journalist I am about 1/3 of the way through David Halberstam’s last book, The Coldest Winter, a history of the Korean War.
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