Tag: US Journalism

  • Good old-fashioned reporting

    Good reporting, the old-fashioned way. Thanks to Mike Hills for the heads up on this video. The Chicago Tribune Guide to Newspaper Reporting (circa 1955) [KevinP1468].

  • Magazine covers…

    [The peerless Onion – HT: Jeremy Leslie]

  • The mysterious Wall Street Journal

    As the Wall Street Journal staffs up to broaden its appeal, bemusement here over the WSJ plan. The focus on America seems odd. Is the U.S. crying out for a national newspaper? Won’t widening the WSJ offering necessarily reduce the business focus? After all if you want to lose money with a conservative national daily…

  • TV News: faking it in the good old days

    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.