Tag: Broadcast News

• Prisoners Of The Box

  TV must’ve seen us coming. There were people who thought – as TV first sparked into being – that TV could never replace radio. That was shortsighted to be kind. And it was said by people who’d been alive while movies were invented and then spread across the planet as the most successful way to…

  A L Katz

  June 15, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, The Branding Age, The Nature of Evil

  Amphitheaters, Broadcast News, CNN, Holly Hunter, Idiot Box, James L Brooks, MSNBC, Proscenium Arch, Smart Phones, Storytelling, Wide Shot, William Hurt

• “Previously On” The News…

  Why, oh why, can’t America’s news media tell the Donald Trump story? In their defense, there is a lot of the Trump story to tell and it’s always happening at breakneck speed. There are Constitutional violations, violations of decency, outright racism, sexism and bigotry, lies about the coronavirus and his criminally inept response to it.…

  A L Katz

  October 11, 2020

  American News Media, Election 2016, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump

  America's news media, Both Sides Do It, Broadcast News, CNN, Constitutional violations, MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace, Previously On, Return to Square One, Violations of decency