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US Nets: Anchorless in Gaza

Wednesday, 7 January, 2009

If you wondered whether declining viewers and corporate belt tightening had a real on-screen resourcing impact on network news coverage, check out Andrew Tyndall on the nets and Gaza:
In the summer of 2006, when the Israel Defense Force headed north to fight with the Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon, all three networks found the conflict so […]

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The Trust Obsession

Monday, 28 April, 2008

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 media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t believe.”
Media […]

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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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TV News: faking it in the good old days

Monday, 11 February, 2008

I stumbled upon this TV news “fakery” classic from the early 1960s, which comes care of CBS veteran Daniel Schorr’s memoir, Clearing The Air. Schorr is lunching his boss, CBS chief, Bill Paley.

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The CBS Evening News business

Thursday, 13 September, 2007

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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Google pays for news?

Monday, 21 May, 2007

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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