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TV news

The False Choice of New Media OR Old Media

May 7, 2007

How about just calling it MEDIA? Sure, labels are useful, but at the end of the day there will be media that people connect with, and the unwatched, unread remains. There seems to be a renewed slugfest between the “revolutionaries” storming the gates of traditional media, and the keepers of corporate status quo. As both [...]

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Scorched Earth Screeds on Citizen vs. Professional Media

May 1, 2007

Can’t we all just get along? As two of my favorite foils, Michael Rosenblum and Jeff Jarvis were storming the gates of traditional TV at the NAB conference in Vegas, many of the journalists who actually do the “boots on the ground” work of TV news were in Blacksburg, VA, covering the worst single shooting [...]

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The Live Video Revolution

April 26, 2007

As the largest collection of live trucks my colleagues and I had ever witnessed beamed images of the horrifying massacre at Virginia Tech, a live TV revolution was quietly happening on the internet. Prompted by “always on” Justin.tv, suddednly everyone’s video had to be live. Tech evangelist Chris Pirillo was live streaming on Ustream, when [...]

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Decompressing From the Virginia Tech Shootings

April 17, 2007

As I come down from the contact high of adrenaline brought about by deadlines on top of dealines, exposure to screaming producers, competing with ourselves and others, the constant din of satellite truck generators, running from this breaking event to that… I’m now able to come up for air. Before I type another word, (i [...]

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Horrifying Events at Virginia Tech Highlight Video Enabled Phones

April 16, 2007

Todays terrifying shooting rampage at Virginia Tech is still developing as of this writing. This is how i found out: NBC just called, I’m to hop on a charter out of Dulles. My next post will be from VA Tech. All of the most dramatic video thus far has come from cell phones Sphere: Related [...]

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Twitter Promotes Ideas, Shows, the Brand

April 15, 2007

Twittering in the shadow of my boss I’m SOOOOOO going to get in trouble for this. I was guest camera on the set of NBC’s Meet The Press with Tim Russert today, and as always, there was lively discussion and debate. This show featured former CENTCOM commander Gen. Tony Zinni (ret.) and a reporter’s round [...]

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Today’s Shooting Assignment: The Pentagon’s V22 Osprey

April 13, 2007

photo credit: US Navy Photo No those AREN’T Pentagon correspondents being booted out the back for publishing DOD leaks. Today I’m off to Quantico Marine Base to shoot this wacky chopper..plane..whirly-bird thingy. If nothing else, it’ll be good pictures. Can I just point out tha today is Friday the 13th? Given the lethal history of [...]

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