The NY Times with Katie Couric?
A little to the left….. a little to the right…. OK… wait…. Technologies have the ability to turn the world upside down without our even noticing. Not too many years ago, TV signals came into your house through the...
Read moreTo Be or Not To Be
This morning, I sat down to write a blog entry that was going to be called “The World Turned Upside Down”. It was going to start with a quote from David Halberstam’s book The Powers That Be. I remembered...
Read moreAn Open Letter to Les Moonves
Dear Mr. Moonves, With the announcement that Katic Couric will seek an early end to her contract with The CBS Evening News, and the equally dismal ratings for CBS This Morning, perhaps it is time to look for a...
Read moreIrresistable Video
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQ3HgXM8dY&hl=en]] Pulitzer Prize winning author Tony Horwitz sells his books online with video About a million years ago (or just a hair over 5,000 years ago if you live near the Creation Museum in Kentucky), man learned to walk...
Read moreCollateral Damage
During the Vietnam War it was called Collateral Damage. You called in air support and the next thing you knew, they were dropping explosives on your own position Bombing was not a precise science in those days. State of...
Read moreThe Theory of Relativity
What is ‘truth’ in journalism?
Read moreThe Ministry of Truth
“and that’s the way it is…” Yesterday and today we have been teaching a VJ course at CUNY’s new Graduate School of Journalism.
Read moreArts & Crafts
portrait of the artist as a young man In 1948, 24-year old Norman Mailer wrote “The Naked and the Dead”. It was his first novel. But not his first short story. That had been published when he was 18....
Read moreBreakfast with Richard Bookstaber
This morning we had breakfast with my friend and neighbor Richard Bookstaber on the back deck of his house in the Hamptons. It is on the water and the views were incredible, as was the food.
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