Huge fan of This American Life. Anyone seen the television show yet? I haven’t, but I’ll bet the formula – extraordinary stories from ordinary people – translates just as well on the television screen as it does on the radio. In fact, I’ve said that newspaper.com’s oughtta pay attention to TAL. There’s lots to be [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 28, 2008
Stop the Presses
New(s) doc. Read all about it here. I wonder if anyone’s started the documentary on the rebirth of American journalism yet.
April 17, 2008
Nuke LaLoosh weighs in
Tim Robbins railed against the current standards of television news at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. Listen here (Link courtesy TransBuddha)
“We don’t need to look at the car crash. We don’t need to live off the pain and humiliation of the unfortunate…We don’t need to celebrate our pornographic [...]
April 11, 2008
Nevermind
There’s a short list already. I wasn’t on it.
Chin up, right? I’ll be hitting this soon next month, anyway.
April 7, 2008
Training
I’m applying for a multimedia training seminar at the Knight Digital Media Center in Berkeley, Calif. It’s the real deal for learning the tools of the trade and applying them to good storytelling. Can’t hurt to apply, right? Here’s the essay I wrote:
I can’t escape the question of whether or not being a fairly young, [...]
