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Reporter involvement: a message to Dan Harris, although it’s not his fault
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene The Quiet AmericanFrom USA Today: More reporters embrace an advocacy roleBy Peter Johnson The “social journalism” that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy…
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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…
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Tony Blair
Is doing his one-on-one stateside with CBS News’ Katie Couric according to TV Newser. But ex-Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos (a televisual Jamie Rubin) has sneaked in for ABC with an interview for his Sunday show. NBC again demonstrating why they’re number one for news (just kidding), but the truth is Mr Blair won’t play much…