Out of the Newsroom

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 [...]

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Don’t ask me why I am awake at 1:30 AM (EDT) and watching Hurricane Coverage on my TV and my Computer. I wish I had an answer other than I am a news junkie and when I am not working in a newsroom, I am often watching what someone else is doing in one. An [...]

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I have spent most of my spare seconds over the past few days grinding my teeth over a post on Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine blog that hailed a daily noon webcast by The Newark Star-Ledger as the pretty much the second coming of video journalism. Why? It seemed mostly because it was done by that bastion [...]

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In the 1980s, one view of the future was that of a desolate land where people were mostly valued for their parts as collected by snatchers and sold to body banks. The population was fed a steady diet of an opiate known as television, where networks waged war over having the most people watching, determined [...]

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During the course of this week, I’ve read that two new media pundit-types have endorsed the same “big idea” as the future for local television stations on the internet. Since one of them is actually someone I respect (Steve Safran of AR&D fame)–I can’t just dismiss their opinions as the latest fad of consultantcy-fee-driven thinking. [...]

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