Thanks to America Online, we've just hit a new low in the dumbing down of news. Not a bottom, mind you, just a new low. Because the lowest of the low...
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
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.
Rob Morrison | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment
One of the beautiful things about being "in between jobs" is you have plenty of time to try new things.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media
Would things be any different had the broadcast networks been "free" to keep America informed about our wars and the constitutional violations as well as the entirety of the run of the mill transgressions perpetrated by the Bush/Cheney administration?
Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
"Here's a chance through Twitter, all these social networks, to break the glass in front of the tube," says "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran. "It giv...
Stanton Peele | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski have both discussed family dynamics on MSNBC's Morning Joe, which they co-host. In many ways, these dynamics seem...
Libby Mitchell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Every time I wrote "Mr. Bush" for an anchor to read on air, I would grit my teeth and count down the days until January 20th, 2009. Now, that day is here.
Harry Shearer | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media
Is it really hard to believe that most American produce retailers don't routinely label country of origin on all their fruits and vegetables? Does Collins not shop for her own food?
Los Angeles Times | Howard Rosenberg | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
Tailored suit, tasteful hair, good posture, all business, only rare hints of perkiness. I've been checking out Katie Couric, really putting the evil ...
The Guardian | Hadley Freeman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
It's interesting to see that this problem plagues the UK, too: Why do all female newscasters look like 80s throwbacks?-Marcus Tompkinson, by email O...
Linda Keenan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
I never thought that more than a decade in the cable news business, working in the heady presence of dozens of anchors great and small, would prepare me so well for my current job: mother of a toddler.
Baltimore Sun | Chris Emery | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Makeup artists at HD stations with big budgets use airbrushes to apply specially formulated cosmetics. Their makeup contains no silicon or mica becaus...
Morning Call | Nichola D. Gutgold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Anchor. The word evokes the heft and weightiness needed to secure a vessel. In television news, an anchorperson must ''hook'' the audience, and make t...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
As previously mentioned, all three nightly newscasts originated live from the scene of California's devastating forest fires tonight as Katie Couric, ...
Business Week | Jon Fine | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Does any media form seem quainter than the network's evening newscasts? The entire exercise is suffused with the scent of the long-ago. Its better day...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The book itself still remains under wraps, but from the amount we've surveyed it looks to be a thoroughly engrossing, engaging and more than occasionally juicy read.
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
News Corp's Fox Business Network on Wednesday named five Fox News Channel insiders to be the first on-air news anchors ahead of the channel's highly a...
William Fisher | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media