In the early part of this century if someone told you they were “a consultant” there was a good chance it meant they were out of work. Today, “I have a podcast” seems to ...
If you can’t ad-lib just….don’t. Is that so hard to remember? Down in Oklahoma City last week, the happy talk ad-libbing wound up with KOCO morning news anchor Alex Housden tearfully apologizing to her ...
The National Association of Broadcasters and its Educational Foundation have helpfully added a set of online “Reporting on Religion” tools to their “Awareness in Reporting” Initiative “Religion can be controversial and the beliefs and ...
Why, do you suppose, is local tv news still a top source of information for consumers even as they head for their computers and their smartphones for entertainment? Pew thinks they have the answer ...
It was the unpredictability of the Trump rallies early in the presidency that prompted all of the cable networks to devote air time to what have always been political rallies with a notable absence ...
Suddenly journalism seems vital again and with it, journalism school. Of course, it doesn’t come without challenges for both professors and students. Matt Tullis, a journalism professor at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT provides ...
Pity poor Boris Epshteyn. The Sinclair ”chief political analyst” whose “must-run” segments on Sinclair local tv stations have heretofore been unrivalled in their banality, partisan incoherence and sheer lunacy has competition. Fox News “senior ...
We’d really like it if our friends in the MEED-ja (as a former colleague pronounced it) would please repeatedly take note that what happened over the weekend at the Red Hen was a case ...
feck·less adjective lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. You know, before Samantha Bee combined the above word with the name for a female body part to insult Ivanka Trump, the only other time ...
While ABC was still trying to decide the fate of the ultimately cancelled “Roseanne,” the inevitable chewing over of her ridiculous tweet by cable news talking heads led to a rather ironic exchange. FTR, ...
“You don’t just come into this country with low skills, low education, not understanding the language and come into our country because someone says it makes them feel nice. That’s not what this country ...
