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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXVII - Numbers 3 & 4 Spring/Summer
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What Makes Canadian TV So Different?
By John Doyle. The distinguished TV critic of the Toronto Globe & Mail reveals that it rejects the common ingredients for comedy or drama on American TV. |
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Media Consolidation: A Tricky Business
By Walter Cronkite, who after 70 years in journalism—19 as anchor of the CBS Evening News—worries about the effect of consolidation on the quality of news reporting. |
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Media Consolidation: Not in the Public Interest
By FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, who raises the alarm that we have enabled cartels to control the broadcast media. |
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Why “Generation Next” Won’t Watch Local TV News
By Richard Campbell, director of the journalism program at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, who observes that viewers (and readers) are now conceived—not as citizens—but as consumers, private individuals and focus groups. |
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From High-School Disc Jockey to Network News Anchor
By Morton Silverstein, to whom Tom Brokaw tells why he left the NBC Nightly News and why young people aren’t watching the news: they’re going online. |
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How a Local Station Unveiled a “Dirty Secret”
By John Sherman, a WBAL-Baltimore reporter who describes his station’s successful efforts to attack a composting plant that was masquerading as a friend to the environment, put it out of business and demonstrated the power of television as a force for good. |
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First Impressions Matter: The Framing of Katrina Coverage by CNN and FOX
By Owen Hanley Lynch of Southern Methodist University, who reveals how FOX emphasized the physical devastation and de-emphasized the human plight while CNN spotlighted the human plight over property damage. |
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“Dumbing Down” by Sports Announcers
By Greg Vitiello, a sports fan and athlete who voices his irritation with the bravado, bombast, ranting, chortling and crude language that draws attention to the announcer. |
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Why Can’t You Watch Al Jazeera English? By Dave Marash, the veteran ABC News correspondent who is now Washington anchor for the new service, which he shows is not “terror TV” and not anti-American. |
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48 HOURS—The Birth of an Unconventional Magazine Show By Tom Flynn, an award-winning CBS News writer and producer for more than 25 years, who describes the creation of a new way to tell a story on television. |
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REVIEW AND COMMENT
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media By Eric Klinenberg - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont The Man Who Would Not Shut up: The Rise of Bill O’Reilly By Marvin Kitman - Reviewed by Fritz Jacobi It’s Good to be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks By James Robert Parish - Reviewed by Earl Pomerantz Crime Television, by Douglas Snauffer; The Best Seat in the House: How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life, by Allen Rucker - Reviewed by Ron Simon Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre Reader Edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Brian G. Rose - Reviewed by John Cooper Carnivàle: The Complete Seasons 1 and 2 Daniel Knauf, creator and executive producer - Reviewed by David Marc |