Perhaps you missed Sunday night’s debut of “Check It out! With Dr. Steve Brule.” It appears on the Adult Swim division of Cartoon Network. Odds are, you aren’t part of the demographic they’re trying to reach. I know I’m not. Dr. Steve Brule is that guy on the local news who does interaction more than [...]
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6 Nov
The shootist
An Army Major identified by police as Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a killing rampage in Ft. Hood Texas, and the media calls him a “shooter.” A student at Virginia Tech massacres his fellow students, and the press calls him the “Virginia Tech shooter.” Brian Nichols murders a judge and a court reporter in cold [...]
25 Oct
Why “I don’t watch”
At a party last weekend, I met a young lawyer who works as a public defender in metro Atlanta. Politely, she asked if I had an occupation. I gave her the shorthand: “Local TV news guy.” (She was dressed as a zombie; I was dressed as the Ghost of Americana. You kinda had to be [...]
24 Sep
Mentally handicapped
2pm, Douglasville GA. 9.23.09. When it’s insufficient to merely park illegally in a handicapped spot, do it sideways. While I was on foot covering flooding, this asshat nearly hit me. He was racing through a parking lot toward this spot. We will resume our regular programming shortly. Update: Now you’ve hit the bigtime, dipwad!
18 Sep
The gorilla ball
The Gorilla Ball is Saturday. The event is a competition among Atlanta TV stations to see which can produce the most entertaining blooper reel. The reels are always worthy viewing. CNN typically enlivens the event by providing a blooper reel, though CNN is ineligible for the Otto Focus Award, the plastic trophy handed over to [...]
16 Sep
Sustenance
Thank goodness there are so many caring people who love TV. Without them, the denizens of newsrooms across America would surely wither and die. Tuesday was an excellent example. As newsroom staff at WXIA were beginning to collapse from starvation — deprived, as they were, of nutrition due to their extraordinary hard work and their [...]
14 Sep
Overheard in the newsroom
News professionals who are still unsure about using Facebook — and they are surprisingly numerous — may reconsider when they learn that they can “become a fan of” an entity called “overheard in the newsroom.” By so doing, the daily Facebook feed will provide you with a regular litany of newsroom howlers. Here are a [...]
23 Aug
Priorities
By Mike Daly On Tuesday, August 18th, I was the videographer for a crew shooting a story near Blairsville, GA. I was contracting for a national television show. I drove a car which had no logo on it. The story follows the search for Kristi Cornwell, who disappeared one week earlier. She went for an [...]
1 Aug
Perp walk…
In the 2004 motion picture “The Clearing,” Robert Redford stars as a business tycoon who has been kidnapped for ransom. His understandably distraught family members decide to “go public” with a direct appeal through the media and schedule a press conference. I happened to get a little face time in the movie as an extra [...]
28 Jul
Reporter Threatened! Details at 5!
Viewers are saved the trouble of wasting time watching an actual news story, thanks to wsbtv.com and the “Good Parts” version. Once again, Action News has beaten the competition by pioneering a new frontier.
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