Our Increasingly Shortened Attentio…. #BORING #sorry
Cody Johns on VINE NOW THIS NEWS, the one year old online news service, potential heir to the New York Times or NBC Nightly News, except entirely online announced this week that it has hired Cody Johns as...
Read moreIs Educational Television an Oxymoron?
Vietnam Vietnam: A Television History Vietnam: A Television History Something has got to give in the world of education. Tuition at many private universities now exceeds $50,000 a year. Â That’s $200,000 for a BA. Is it worth it? A...
Read moreLet’s Put the ‘Public’ back in Public Broadcasting
Cutting edge… 1962 Yesterday, while I was sitting at my kitchen table typing out my angry screed about Gwen Ifill, I was also listening to NPR, as I do every morning. NPR happened to be running their annual beg-a-thon,...
Read moreThe Nobility Is Annoyed
Oh no, Ms Ifill… PBS’ Gwen Ifill is annoyed. Some ‘person’ is questioning her right to rule over the peasants. This ‘person’, who Ms Ifill refuses to call by name, is Prof. Jay Rosen of NY University. He wrote...
Read moreWhy I Don’t Contribute to PBS
Thirteen is still an unlucky number… Full disclosure: My very first job in TV was with PBS at Channel 13. That would be WNET/13, the PBS station in New York. I was a production assistant on a public affairs...
Read morePBS Jumps Headlong Into 1982
And now.. the late news…. Facebook is a great tool for finding old friends with whom you have lost touch. Recently, I friended Marty Goldensohn. Marty is, among many other things, Brian Lehrer’s producer. (Brian Lehrer for those outside...
Read moreThe Reckoning – Tonight on PBS
This is for real A lot of people who work for us dream of being documentary filmmakers. It is not easy path to follow. But for those who wish to do so, there is no better role model than...
Read moreAnd Here’s Why PBS is Toast
Neil Shapiro, President WNET…. I have a soft spot in my heart for WNET/13, the PBS station in NY (though licensed in Newark, NJ technically). I had my first TV job at WNET and they allowed me to move...
Read moreVideo and the Web – PBS Speech
Many thanks to Mel Taylor, who posted this on youtube, (and on his own site), and draws my attention to it. This was the keynote address to the annual Public Broadcasting Conference. It makes a nice point about how...
Read moreGreetings from Iowa
“if you were born 500 years ago…..” Today we are out in Iowa at the Public Broadcasting Conference.
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