All Entries Tagged With: "TV news"
Anatomy of How to Report TV News
Television news today – local, cable or national – is all formula driven. There are a few exceptions, like PBS NewsHour and HD Net’s World Report, but just a few. The rest of it is mostly shallow, inane and predictable.
Money, Money, Money
While on annual vacation with my wife … we always visit the same remote valley in extreme southeast Switzerland near Italy … I have been thinking about Frank Rich’s essay in The New York Times this past Sunday on the passing of Walter Cronkite and lamenting the demise of journalistic standards as we have know when for years. I believe Frank, who I greatly respect, missed the main point about the crumbling news business.
What They Mean When They Say …
Do you ever wonder about all the jargon and cliches you hear on TV news, especially the 24-hour cable news channels? They all say the same thing. So, here’s a crib sheet to what they really mean.
TV’s One-Man-Band for News
WUSA television in Washington, D.C., has announced a significant change in how the station will cover and report news, a change that will certainly impact the quality, professionalism and accuracy of news reported by the station in the nation’s capital. For decades, TV news people in larger cities have worked in teams – a reporter [...]
Old Media’s Decline
The recent announcement by The Christian Science Monitor that it would cease printing a paper edition and concentrate online is simply another sign that traditional mainstream journalism is crumbling. It’s one subject covered extensively in my new book, The Media Savvy Leader, to be published in early January. It’s easy to see where the Monitor [...]
Jon Stewart Calls It As It Is
TV news organizations are angry and reacting to remarks by Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show.” Stewart, usually the comedian, seriously criticized the cable news networks as a “brutish, slow-witted beast” and castigated Fox News in particular as “an appendage of the Republican Party.” Fox News reacted by saying Stewart was, “clearly out of [...]
Product Placement on TV News
I guess it was only a matter of time. We’ve seen product placement advertising in movies for years. You know, the prominently placed can of soda on a desk or the FedEx truck that inexplicably drives through a scene. Now, there is product placement on TV news. The New York Times reports that the ethically [...]
