No TV news, then and now
it’s been ten days with no TV news, save for one episode of the NBC Nightly News, when the whale-cutter’s nomination drew me back. Did I learn anything more from that “half-hour” than I already knew from reading words? No.
Orange Crate Art
Crazy weather
“Grab them shades on the way out the door. Precip cast? Fuggedaboudit! I mean, we still need a tall drink of water. I just ain’t happening tonight nor tomorrow.”
“Mister”
NBC Nightly News: it’s galling to hear Michael Cohen called “Cohen” and Donald Trump called “Mister Trump,” every damn time. Too much deference.
Bravery!
O drama!
ATTN: MSNBC
If I want to see moneyed persons exiting planes and stepping into big black vehicles, I can watch Succession. At least Succession shows what’s happening in the planes and cars.
Call “Dr. Fauci” by his full name
A note to the news, not that the news is listening: When introducing or making a first reference to Dr. Anthony Fauci, please refer to him by his full name and position. He is not a cartoon or character, à la Drs. Evil, No, Oz, and Phil. So “Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,” please.
“Mostly I read”
Ted Turner’s biographer doesn’t own a TV.
Just say no to interregnum
There is no throne. There is never not a president. And we don’t (yet) have a declaration of martial law.
Back to Naked City
Escaping the news for an hour, finding out what we missed, and going back to Naked City.
Real chyrons, imaginary crowd
From CNN.
No TV for a week!
It’s been no CNN or MSNBC for a week, and I feel fine.
No TV news
I dread what the next four years might mean for my country, but I don’t need a television to know about it.
The PBS NewsHour remembers Gwen Ifill
Nearly the entire broadcast was devoted to remembering Gwen Ifill.
Gwen Ifill (1955–2016)
I will miss Gwen Ifill’s intelligence and exuberance. Watching her, I always had the feeling that we were all in this (that is, current events, of whatever sort) together.
PBS, sheesh
From tonight’s PBS NewsHour : “In this campaign, the topic of refugees from war-torn Syria have been a political flash point.”
CNN, sheesh
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CNN fail
John King’s map and people of color. Appalling.
“A-Tisket, A-Tasket”
CNN’s John King and his baskets of votes.
A hashtag of possible interest
BaltimoreCoverageYouMayNotSee
Baltimore questions
Is live television coverage in Baltimore meant to help bring about the violence that we now see on CNN? Is it too cynical to acknowledge that broadcasting such stuff serves broadcasters’ interests? And is it too cynical to suspect that broadcasting such stuff serves to strengthen a larger narrative about color and criminality?
John King, fast talker
No more coffee for him.
Thank you, local news
The local news informs me that salt will work to melt ice but only on treated roads.
Winter weather wisdom
CNN tells us to wear a hat.
On PBS tonight
Frontline: Raising Adam Lanza.
Plus ça change
Scott Pelley and Bob Schieffer look awful lot alike.