“There Was No Crime Scene Tape Involved.”

Ellen Crooke, news director of NBC affiliate WXIA, discusses local news coverage at an Atlanta Press Club event.

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Good Luck With That Olympics Embargo Thing, NBC

Don’t want to wait for NBC’s ridiculously delayed coverage of the Olympics? There are plenty of places to get it now, get it live. The NYTimes Olympics blog has a list of what’s going on here. And Silicon Valley Insider has many tips and tricks on where to get it all live and off the [...]

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Staging Crawford, TX

Interesting live-streamed chat from NBC cameraman and some documentary producer on “political stagecraft” and how the media do a special kind of visual propaganda with “the ranch” in Crawford.
Yep, everyone’s in on this game. Big Media, The White House, the people of Crawford.
The documentary producer cameraman Jim Long interviews here lifts the lid on the whole [...]

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Chasing Obama

When we hear those cries of “liberal media bias” it makes me wanna holler-laugh. Mostly such attacks are coming from clueless rubes who have absolutely no idea how hard travel journalists work their buns off, especially on a Presidential campaign. As if they have a moment’s time for a luxury like bias. It’s moreorless… shovel the product out as [...]

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Ladies Of The Nets

CAPTIONS PLEASE!

After a serious rant (see below) a good laugh is surely in order. This photo of Rush’s main squeeze Daryn Kagin showing Meredith Viera the juicy parts of Kagin’s book was taken at yesterday’s Atlanta Press Club luncheon for Ms. Viera.
Viera was wicked-funny and delightfully down to earth during her freewheelin’ chat-n-greet. If I wasn’t [...]

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