Bob CollinsWindham, who died last night, was as good a person character-wise as you’ll ever find in a newsroom as evidenced by his work with young people, with whom he led overseas mission trips. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
If the party leaders are wrong and Trump should win the White House, nine months from now journalists will be writing stories about how they gave him a free pass. Read more →
The decision to shutter Al Jazeera America recently was met with a general shoulder shrug. It was hard to find the channel on cable TV. It was easy to find its website, but not enough people were interested in finding it. Read more →
There aren’t a lot of radio broadcasters left who can be called legends in their community, but Scott Miller certainly qualified as one.
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If you’re a regular listener to MPR News, you probably noticed a disturbance in the force of public radio, whose fans tend to like to have things just where they were the day before.
It involved one word: “Live”, and boy did the bosses at NPR hear about it.
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Ever wonder where some political reporters get their analysis? Judging by emails pried from the Department of State, they buy it from the politicians they cover by selling their integrity. Read more →
NPR is getting some criticism for getting a story right.
Welcome to the world of campaign coverage. Read more →
Frank Deford will still be an NPR contributing commentator under a new lineup announced today, but his weekly visits to NPR’s Morning Edition are over. He’ll be on only monthly from now on, the network announced today.
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Minnesota has its share of weird decisions by politicians to look good for the TV cameras, but we’ve got nothing on Cranston, Rhode Island. Read more →
When should someone abandon the job he’s paid to do — documenting events, in this case — and put the camera down to pitch in to help? Read more →
The social media landscape has given rise to a new art form: the ‘why I quit’ treatise. You’ve probably seen them from time to time. Someone doesn’t want to work somewhere anymore, quits, and then bares all of the faults of the workplace with the innuendo that its time is up. Read more →
When I started NewsCut eight years ago this month, one of the things I wanted to do was provide the occasional behind-the-scenes look at MPR News, an area most people never get to see unless you take one of my patented two-hour in-person tours.
I never got around to it but being called out of radio talk-show retirement in the last couple of weeks to fill in for Kerri Miller reminded me again that radio is an iceberg, most of which lies beneath the surface. Read more →
CBS News anchor Scott Pelley reminds us that if some people didn’t get in the line of fire, the public might never know what happened. Sixty-nine journalists have been killed in 2015. Read more →
The better story right now is the one Wemple has been pedaling all week: the New York Times appears to have been far more incompetent in its work than the federal authorities were in theirs. Read more →
The latest is the widely-reported assertion that Tashfeen Malik talked openly on social media about violent jihad. That’s led to criticism that the U.S. intelligence services failed to pick up even the most public warnings that she and her husband were a threat. Read more →