An Emmy Award-winning CBS broadcast journalist turns his analytic eye on his own industry in this investigation of broadcast news. Here he suggests that television news is biased toward the political left.
An important guide to understanding what you're getting--and not getting--from TV news. Postman and Powers warn that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for a knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake and suggest ways to intelligently evaluate TV news shows.
Freeman traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching more than 60 million homes via more than 26,000 cable providers. This paperback reveals the most recent developments at ESPN since the publication of the first edition, including the network's reactions to the book. 15 photos.
Broad in scope and rich in detail, "This Business of Television" has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve, "This Business of Television" evolves along with it. This ...
"Broadcast News Handbook" enables students and professionals to become better writers and better broadcast journalists. Backed by 50 years of combined broadcast journalism experience, the authors provide helpful discussions on crafting language and becoming an effective storyteller. The topics addressed include "Deadly Copy Sins and How to Avoid ...
The Founding Fathers believed that a free press was essential to a free society and they built that protection into the First Amendment. Even today, there are many who believe that the only thing that keeps us free is a vigorous fourth estate. However, as the number of information outlets increases exponentially, it seems that many stories get ...
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever. Weaving personal ...
In a time of sweeping media change, increasingly demanding actors, and pressured executives, the four major networks struggle to become number one. In the process, they provide Carter with a fascinating picture of what really happens on the set and behind closed boardroom doors.
Mark Pinsky takes a look at the various and often pointed ways that the TV show THE SIMPSONS deals with religion and morality. This popular animated series, noted more for its sarcasm than its piety, is able to touch on religious pluralism and moral issues without being heavy-handed, according to Pinsky, and he provides new perspectives on ...
David Brinkley, icon of the American airwaves, has written his autobiography, a classic American story which overlaps with some of the great events and important personages of the era. From playing poker with Truman to riding the rails with Churchill to walking the beaches with D-Day veterans, readers are privy to some of Brinkley's most priceless ...
Praise for "The Billion Dollar BET": 'In a gripping narrative that is both inspirational and cautionary, Brett Pulley tells us how Robert Johnson built Black Entertainment Television into a billion-dollar media empire. In a remarkable feat of reporting, without Johnson's cooperation, Pulley shows what it really takes to get ahead in America today, ...
Tube of Plenty is an abridgement of Erik Barnouw's classic 3-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States. The paperback edition was first published in 1976 and a second edition in 1982. Much has happened in television in the 1980s; the decline of the three major networks, the expansion of cable and satellite television, film channels like ...
Fairfax, Virginia, has the most extensive cable system in America. There are 103 channels. One day in May 1990, the author watched all 24 hours of these 103 channels, and what he saw and heard is a funny but frightening picture of American culture and information today.
This multimedia package records the most sensational moments of the 20th and early 21st centuries, from the Hindenburg disaster to the destruction of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
This introduction to the art of visual storytelling is the most contemporary, professionally-oriented book on television field production and reporting on the market. Widely adopted and universally respected, this text is endorsed by the National Press Photographers Association as a resource for college students and working professionals alike.
Aspiring filmmaker Rune is paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the network's hot newsmagazine show. In the video archives, she finds a taped interview with convicted killer Randy Boggs, proclaiming his innocence. Rune believes him, and rushes to prove he didn't do it. Soon her investigation will plunge her into a case that has her ...
Featuring more than 350 full-color photos from TV Guide's vast archive, this volume promises to be a landmark publishing event. From "The Howdy Doody Show" to "The Simpsons, " from Lucy Ricardo to Carrie Bradshaw, all the fascinating and unforgettable personalities, shows, and events are gathered here in a gallery of images and memories for the ...
"Real life as entertainment" is explored as one of America's most original cultural critics reveals how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything of importance into one vast public entertainment.
Television Field Production and Reporting introduces the art of visual storytelling with the most contemporary, professionally-oriented look at television field production and reporting on the market. Widely adopted and universally respected, the National Press Photographers Association endorses Television Field Production and Reporting as a ...
Mexican-American reporter Jorge Ramos writes about his life, both personal and professional, and in particular his career with Univision, the Spanish-language television station based in Los Angeles.
"Portable Video" focuses on technique and technology for single camera electronic news gathering and electronic field production. Covering everything from basic creative and technical editing techniques to budgets and copyright issues, it is accessible to the home videomaker or amateur and to the professional seeking information on the newest ...
Television presents students with an understanding of how television constructs meaning and encourages them to incorporate critical thinking into their TV viewing. It provides essential critical and historical context, lucidly explaining how different critical methods have been applied to the medium (e.g., genre study, ideological criticism, ...
This autobiography of Allen's 50 full years of television and radio work is packed with humorous anecdotes about himself and other top stars. Allen recalls live-television goofs, mistakes, and mix-ups and pays tribute to the many stars he worked with through the years.
Twenty-first century TV offers an apparently endless stream of images, unfolding at high speed. We no longer watch individual programmes but flick from channel to channel, absorbing a continuous flow of news, game shows, comedy, drama, movies, advertising and trailers. 'Television: Technology and Cultural Form' was first published in 1974, long ...
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