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We all love when great things happen on television, but it's the mistakes -- the bad decisions and the blunders -- that keep us all intrigued.
They used to call him the news doctor, but when Magid first showed up in Los Angeles and other major television markets, serious news directors used to cringe and say, "Here comes Doctor Death."
It's pledge time at many noncommercial, listener and viewer-supported television and radio stations and you may already be feeling irritated by the p...
I awoke this morning to a scene that the Donner Party would have recognized. Where I know I parked my car there is a mound of white. Two feet of snow and it's still coming down.
You can be sure that some enterprising TV executive, somewhere, is going to take advantage of this. In about a year, the station's newscast, featuri...
If you're a political talker, there is one media venue where you will never hear the sound of silence -- MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.
By Stephen Viscusi. Let me start this column by clarifying that HarperCollins, put on the cover of my last book, "Bulletproof Your Job"--- "Amer...
Until you work on these issues, it's hard to appreciate how difficult it is to diversify newsrooms. But it's time for TV outlets to cast their gaze beyond the usual suspects.
Every news provider and we, as media trainers, whose job is to prep people who talk to news providers, know one essential truth: it's all about story-...
Truth is often lost when we fail to distinguish between opinion and fact, and that is the danger we now face as a society.
It might have been smarter for the media-crazed Heene to have simply threatened to send a puppy up in his balloon, and you can bet he'd have gotten a lot of media attention.
Let's take a measured step back and check out the off-the-charts Madness Quotient in just one recent episode of the nightly news.
Okay. Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, please! Enough with this David Letterman hoopla already! You know something? I DON'T CARE! I don't. In fac...
Now that everybody's got their own mic, you have to fact check everybody. You need to know their motivations and who's paying them. You have to be your own Walter.
As we embrace Twitter and the blog, we must also be committed to forging a new pathway to the truth and the hard work of uncovering the information necessary to sustain a healthy democracy.
What a time for Iconomania, none of it critical, none of it questioning, none offering deeper perspective or leading to very revealing coverage.
