Former CBS News Producer Urges Network To ‘Take A Risk’ With Scott Pelley ‘Before It’s Too Late’
Back in the day, Michael Rosenblum toiled as a producer at CBS News, before leaving the network and making a name for himself as a pioneer in transforming news operations. He helped launch Current TV and New York's local NY1, and has trained journalists to shoot their own video at The New York Times, the...
Former CBS News Producer Urges Network To ‘Take A Risk’ With Scott Pelley ‘Before It’s Too Late’
Back in the day, Michael Rosenblum toiled as a producer at CBS News, before leaving the network and making a name for himself as a pioneer in transforming news operations. He helped launch Current TV and New York's local NY1, and has trained journalists to shoot their own video at The New York Times, the...
Bill O’Reilly And Keith Olbermann Both Get Critique Of Ted Koppel Wrong
Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann do not care for each other. Not only do they appear to vehemently disagree over the role of government, and the intersection of media and politics, neither appears to be able to mention the other without disparagement - or in O'Reilly's case, even mention Olbermann's name at all....
Keith Olbermann Slays The “False God Of Objectivity” In Scorching Special Comment
Keith Olbermann may have just inadvertently won himself the praise of the American right. In a twelve-minute Special Comment refuting Ted Koppel's obituary to "real news" this week, Olbermann attempted to unmask the true nature of so-called objective journalism legends like Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. They weren't objective, he argues-- they...
LAT’s Jonah Goldberg Applauds “New Journalism” For Moving Past Cronkite Era
Walter Cronkite is widely regarded as an icon -- and, to many aspiring journalists, a role model. He and his coverage of the Vietnam War are often referred to as a highpoint in journalism even today. Jonah Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times has a vastly different opinion. In today's column, he writes that...
Did Rachel Maddow Miss Her Walter Cronkite Moment? So Claims 60’s Anti-War Activist Tom Hayden
MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow recently visited Afghanistan -- and anchored her show from the country -- to find out what was really going on and to see for herself whether we're fighting a losing battle. Fair enough. But Tom Hayden, in The Nation, argues that Maddow did not make the best of her time there,...
Released FBI Documents Detail Walter Cronkite’s Aid of Vietnam War Protesters
Yahoo News has just reported on some previously-unreleased FBI documents which contain fairly shocking allegations against the late Walter Cronkite, host of the CBS Evening News for 19 years and one of the most respected journalists of all time. The documents include the claims of a confidential informant who once told the FBI...
Panel Nerds: Brian Williams Delivers on News
Who: Brian Williams, interviewed by Jeff Greenfield What: “In the News with Jeff Greenfield - Brian Williams" Where: 92nd St. Y When: April 18, 2010 Thumbs: Up
A Complete List, or Myopic Look At Just The White People We Think Matter?
Danny.
I just don’t get it.
In your piece “A Retrospective: 28 Media Leaders Who Died This Decade,” you acknowledge the contributions of several well-known media figures who have died since 2000. Nice names. Good people. But they are all WHITE!
You couldn’t think of ANYONE who wasn’t white? Really?
Is Twitter The New Walter Cronkite?
Twitter has been declared the most popular word of 2009 meaning, I presume, that in less than 12 months the act of Twittering has gone so mainstream that even your parents know what you're talking about. It also means that this is how a whole lot of people are getting their breaking...
Apparently The FBI Didn’t Know Who Walter Cronkite Was
When Walter Cronkite passed away in June his FBI records became available to the public. Who knows what juicy tidbits those files might have uncovered! Actually we will never know because some enterprising soul at the FBI opted to destroy the files two years ago under some policy the FBI has, that...
