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 [...]
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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.
26 Jul
Burying the lede
That sound you hear in the distance is a blogger crying “uncle!” The blogger, having spent twenty-five months eking out mortgage payments as an entrepreneur, is taking a job with the Man. The job will return the blogger to a line of work for which he has a great deal of affection, in an industry [...]
13 Jul
Journeys…
Certain Speculation By CB Hackworth newsmanatl [at] gmail [dot] com Remember “Journeys With Brenda Wood?” Ok, never mind. Not important. Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine — often described as a “leading” Republican candidate for governor — has launched his own show, “Journeys With John Oxendine.” I kid you not. It’s on his YouTube Channel. Good stuff? [...]
11 Jul
Pitchforks and torches…
Ok, so the pic of Malia in the peace sign t-shirt it isn’t exactly as iconic as John John playing underneath JFK’s desk in the oval office — but to suggest that the youngest members of the First Family be hidden completely is just… strange.
8 Jul
Localizing MJ
No, we watched none of the local TV coverage of the Michael Jackson story. It poses the classic local news dilemma: The essence of the story is across the continent, at the Staples Center in LA. But you’ve got umpteen hours of local news time to kill. Love him or not, everybody’s talking about MJ. [...]
1 Jul
Boom goes the dynamite
Think it’s easy to be a news or sports anchor? Think it’s just a matter of applying makeup, sitting in a chair and reading a teleprompter? Think again. Odds are, you’ve seen this bit of Indiana-based sportscasting. Stephen Colbert has referenced it at least twice, Will Smith once at the Oscars. But if you’re a [...]
29 Jun
Fair and white balanced
If you aren’t clicking on Viewfinder Blues most days, you’re missing the most amusing TV news blog in the business. We’ve written before about our man-crush on Stewart Pittman (though we’ve never actually met). He’s a guy who slogs through a day shooting news at WGHP in High Point NC. Then he goes home, puts [...]
6 Jun
Monica’s closet
This makes perfect sense. This is from a piece linked through WSB’s web site. The topic: The footwear of “phenomenal news personality” Monica Pearson. An excerpt: “Just Call her Monica Marcos- Monica says her husband laughingly calls her ‘Monica Marcos’ after the infamous Imelda Marcos, because she has so many shoes… Monica literally has shoes [...]
7 May
Tornado v. tv crew
This is a nine-minute, lightly-edited raw-tape soap opera. From KMBC Kansas City, via b-roll.net, courtesy Lenslinger. Click here to read photographer John Woods’ first-person description. more about “untitled“, posted with vodpod
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