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Home Front: Culture Wars
TV News and Blogging - field notes
2005-04-27
How are the segments of a TV news show really developed? Here's the first part of a series on creating and broadcasting the blog roundup at MSNBC's Connected Coast to Coast. Of interest primarily for how stories get selected, compressed and presented online as a rank amateur goes behind - and in front of - the camera.


The mainstream media and the blogosphere: oil and water? diamonds and pressed glass? fox and hounds?

Lots of bits have been spilled on the topic. Meanwhile, an interesting experiment is playing out at MSNBC, where Monica Crowley and Ron Reagan host Connected: Coast to Coast twice a day, along with guest bloggers. The show, like most TV news programs, is a curious mix of reporting and entertainment.....
Posted by:Robin Burk

#2  That is a classic, Matt. Sums up the MSM elite agenda perfectly.

Ron Reagan is an asstard. That's on a good day.

The last time I really enjoyed watching the news was a late-night show called Overnight (on NBC) with just Lloyd Dobbins and Linda Ellerbee doing the news on a roll...

"And so it goes..."
Posted by: .com   2005-04-27 5:25:53 PM  

#1  The good media news today is that the print edition of the New York Times finally published -- on the front page, no less-- a photo of flag-waving, cheering civilians welcoming soldiers back home.

The bad news is that the civilians are Syrians, and the troops are the ones Assad just pulled out of Lebanon.
Posted by: Matt   2005-04-27 4:50:13 PM  

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