Out of the Newsroom

It has gotten to the point that we are going to have to start putting those warning symbols up before the newscasts because some people think that what we are showing is too graphic or too violent.
Probably not a week goes by without some viewer complaint about how some video we have shown in a [...]

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One of my true guilty pleasures is the “Raw Dog” comedy channel on SiriusXM radio. It’s guilty because paying for radio in my car just seems like such an extravagance these days, and pleasure because the uncensored rants of great stand up comedians makes me laugh out loud.
Often I really need the laugh.
So I [...]

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Just watched Dan Rather on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” talk very pointedly about having recently spent time on the ground with the American military in Afghanistan. He went on to explain what the additional troops that the President is about to send to this part of the world likely will–and won’t–accomplish.
Whatever you may [...]

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Sometimes you read something that is so prescient, so absolutely right on target–that it changes the way you think as if someone had taken the proverbial “two by four” to the side of your head.
I woke up on this Sunday morning and as I usually do–I flipped open my laptop and began scanning the New [...]

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One might suspect that the mere thought will make some of my fellow journalistas throw up a little in the back of their mouths, but another viewing tonight of George Clooney’s movie “Good Night and Good Luck” made me draw some comparisons between Edward R. Murrow and the current purveyor of that famous sign-off, MSNBC’s [...]

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One thing that has struck me as odd is the fact that the live streaming video coverage from the New Orleans television stations that I have been watching for a good part of the past 24 hours has always been proceeded by a short advertisement.
On WWL-TV, it has mostly been a spot for Lowe’s Home [...]

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