adrian monck

Month: March 2007

  • Learning the hard way – CBS Pres on Couric

    Here is the ever-to-be-repeated lesson: “I think in some ways we owed it to the industry to try new things,” said Sean McManus, president of CBS News. “But we found at 6:30 with only 22 minutes of programming time, people basically want you to tell them what happened in the world that day . .…

  • UK vs US news media

    On the media difference between Britain and America, from a former Brit who swapped the UK for Chicago. It has the ring of truth! The British are drowned in world news and current affairs like an oozing puss of global pain and suffering. It is almost as if the evening family meal can’t be served…

  • Cash for honours

    The injunction against the BBC has inspired all kinds of fevered speculation. This is the point where I sadly admit to not particularly caring about the story. Sure it’s a good Westminster yarn. Certainly it would have been a nice coup for Nick Robinson. But why exactly did the Attorney-General slap an injunction on the…

  • TV News 101 – it’s the erosion, stupid

    The tectonic plates are shifting. The NBC Nightly News, which has held the number one slot in U.S. network news for a decade, is being overhauled. A little history. Once CBS News had the lead with Walter Cronkite. Then Dan Rather took the CBS chair and kept the lead, but Rather couldn’t keep Cronkite’s audience…