I like to catch Frontline/World on PBS, and with a little help from TiVo, I was lucky enough to see three attention-gripping documentary shorts earlier this week. Now I just found a news item that says all three shorts were made by recent graduates of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California [...]
It was a strange marriage anyway, at least in my mind. Doomed from the start. But there was all that giddy optimism at the outset, everyone smiling and toasting, handing out money, building new houses they could live in together … In the face of so much happiness, you couldn’t mouth off about what a [...]
Finally! In Migrating Flash Projects to Video, Chris Georgenes of Mudbubble (and author of some of my favorite Flash animation tutorials!) explains step-by-step how to export any Flash movie TO TAPE — so you can drop it right into your broadcast system and air it. I wrote about this two whole years ago (in my [...]
Newspaper editors and TV news directors increasingly break stories on their Web sites (Media Mix/Peter Johnson, USA Today, March 19). Organizations as diverse as the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune (circ. 20,000) and NBC News (via MSNBC.com) do it without blinking an eye. Rome Hartman, executive producer of The CBS Evening News, told Johnson that CBS News [...]
Pierre who? Yeah, I know. So I read this very nice (and SHORT) piece written by the always excellent Katha Pollitt on the occasion of Bourdieu’s death in 2002. While reading Bourdieu’s (also very SHORT) book On Television, I can’t help but marvel at how the Internet is hardly even mentioned (I think he might [...]