Will There Always Be A 6:30 Evening News? Katie Couric Says No
couric soon to be gone Will there always be a network news show to tune into at 6:30? Katie Couric, current anchor of the CBS Evening News says, ‘no’. At least she does in Huffington Post today. I would...
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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 moreWhy Network News is Dead
And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...
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Single white female seeks…. Following the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour in 1537, King Henry VIII of England was convinced to marry Anne of Cleves (pictured above), to cement an alliance with the newly Protestant German state....
Read moreRequiem for a Network
Barbarians at the Gate: Odoacer takes the number one slot, prime time and otherwise 1976 marked the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire. It passed pretty much unnoticed. 1976 had been the 200th anniversary of...
Read moreOne Down… Two to Go
And that’s the way it is…. CBS News apparently is about to outsource part of its newsgathering operation to CNN, or so says The New York Times. This is hardly surprising. For far too long network news operations have...
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.
Read moreAnd now… the ‘news’….
News you can use…… We have lived in the Soviet Union of television journalism for so long that we have actually come to believe that the ‘controlled’ system is ‘better’ than a messy system where anyone can produce anything...
Read moreThe Peasants Are Revolting!
…. storming the CBS Building….. The printing press unleashed a revolution unforseen by Gutenberg. The ‘people’ were suddenly in control of information. And those who had until then complete power over information did not like this at all. The...
Read moreThe Road to Recovery
We can kick this thing… we can….. As anyone who has ever attended an AA meeting will tell you, the road to recovery begins with honesty Before you can get ‘better’ you have to be honest about the problem....
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