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Good Morning Brazil… This morning, we wake up in the almost incomprehensible Sao Paolo. With a population of nearly 20 million people, covering an area of 3,108 square miles, it is the largest city in the world. (by some...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman 1931-2003 Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman was such a book for me. Although I read it in 1985, it was a book...
Read moreListening To The Technology
What is it saying? Andy Grove, former Chairman and co-founder of Intel said, ‘listen to the technology. The technology wil tell you what to do” We are in an industry created by and dictated by technology. As the technology...
Read moreMy First Job in TV
No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
Read moreMen At Work
Caution Cameragod writes to us from New Zealand noting: Ok so tell two men they each have to race dig a road. One gets a 10 year but still working fine old bulldozer and the other a brand new...
Read moreThe Show Must Go On…. or must it?
It’s news Jim, but not as we know it…. Yesterday, I found myself on a panel at the Edinburgh Television Festival with the Heads of News at The BBC, Channel 5 and ITN, respectively (r to l). The topic...
Read moreCNN Bureaus Go VJ
From The New York Times: NYT-August 12, 2008, 2:37 pm CNN’s Strategy: Bureaus Out, Flexible Journalists In By Brian Stelter CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence†by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across...
Read moreOlympic Memories
The last time I had a ‘real’ job was 1988. I was working as a producer for CBS News, and my last assignment was to go to the Seoul Olympics. I was working with Bill Geist, a contributor for...
Read moreAl Jazeera and the VJs
bisme allahi al rahman al rahim… We first met the folks from Al Jazeera at the DNA2008 conference in Brussels. In fact, their Tony Birtley won the prize for best breaking VJ story for his coverage of the Burma...
Read moreThis Just In…
Here’s the headline: End Of Discussion! Yesterday, our regular reader from Fox wrote to me: The day that paper, or any other in the country, covers the headline story of the day, every day, with a video version, is...
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