Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) July 17, 2009
Posted by Charles Bosdet in In Memoriam, Journalism, television news, TV news.Tags: Journalism, television news, walter cronkite
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Walter Cronkite, journalist
The Nuclear Option for TV News Breakers May 22, 2009
Posted by Charles Bosdet in cable news, CNN, Humor, television news, TV news.Tags: cable news, CNN, Humor, television news, TV news
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The good folks at CNN are locked in a spiraling rhetoric race with themselves, and I can hardly wait to see where it leads. Maybe others are in the same race. I haven’t noticed.
For years, TV networks signaled live news coverage by telling you it was live.
Then they put a word on the screen to reinforce immediacy:
That has been superseded at CNN, which sometimes breaks into a Live story with:
Maybe Live lost its luster, or a new generation of news watchers found it too vague.
Watching the news over dinner one night, I pondered what CNN might do to top Happening Now. The answer arrived before dessert when a story Happening Now was breathlessly interrupted with:
If CNN wonders what it can use next to grab our attention and make our hearts go pitty pat, I suggest reaching into The Atomic Cafe for some mushroom-laced inspiration.
How about:
