When I learned that a crew from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart would shoot a piece in Ellijay, I initially hadn’t considered turning it into a local news story. They were doing a piece on some Mitt Romney supporters whose over-the-top enthusiasm for the milquetoast Republican seemed newsworthy when I did the piece in [...]
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12 Dec
Daily No-Show
I have many reasons to resent Justin Gray. I could resent the WAGA reporter for his youth. I could resent his advanced Ivy League education, or his metrosexual fashion sense. I could resent his apparent absence of body fat. But those aren’t the reasons I resent Justin Gray. I resent Justin Gray because in the [...]
24 Jan
“Put down the camera and help somebody!”
The Daily Show has become a go-to for exposing misleading video in the TV news biz. When Fox News transposed rally footage in Washington, showing a larger crowd than actually attended, the Daily Show nailed them. Yet the Daily Show does its own sleight-of-hand in editing a comedy bit featuring footage shot by a Weather [...]
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