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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the […]
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The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has - alas - been on the backburner (too busy).
So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].
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How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics):
Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked for […]
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We come in peace, newslings.
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The Sunday Herald had a good little story:
So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update)
In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal):
Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work?
Moonves: You have to look at it […]
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A day after Don Imus is fired by CBS, the Guardian brings us Alexander Chancellor’s timely take on the story: Day late, dollar short? Someone needs to reread that Alan Rusbridger 24/7 memo. OK, cheap shot over.
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Don Imus – the I-Man – is one of American radio’s institutions. Imus in the Morning has been on the air one way or another since 1971. For UK readers, think of John Humphrys with the forty years of reporting replaced by shock-jocking, cocaine and alcohol addiction. Then stick a Stetson on it. That’s Imus.
As David […]
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