Phil Kent didn’t really want to talk to me. When I asked him for an interview September 12, he flatly declined. He said he thought I was “biased.” He said I was a “gotcha” reporter. I was a day or two late to the Phil Kent story. He’d already talked to two reporters at WXIA, [...]
Archive for September, 2011
21 Sep
Morning people
Here’s a little secret. TV stations have no trouble staffing early-morning newscasts, whose grueling schedules require workdays beginning anywhere from midnight to 3:30am. It’s not just because, in this economy, any paying job with a decent salary can get filled. In the below live shot, you see two perfectly sensible dayside TV news veterans engaging [...]
12 Sep
Conception
“It’s a concept piece.” I’ll say this when the puzzled look forms, after the questioner has asked the most reasonable of questions: What’s your story about? The answer doesn’t help explain the story necessarily. It’s usually just a desperate effort to make my convoluted explanation seem sensible. The concept piece is the hillbilly cousin to [...]
6 Sep
Maya Angelou is right
“Content without context is pretext.”- Rev. Jesse Jackson The longer is sinks in, the more distressed I become about the “drum major” quote on the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument in Washington DC. The creators of that monument took a liberty with the truth that journalists could never take. To do it on a historic monument in [...]
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