Where Was the Defense Going with a Local TV Reporter’s connection to the John Ford Case?

I have to admit I was up to my ears in alligators this past week so I missed testimony during the final week of the John Ford trial.  JT tells me I missed the fact that the defense attorney brought up the name of a Memphis TV reporter in the defense attorney’s grilling of a [...]

Best Interviewer on TV?

A good interviewer on TV makes the job look easy.  It’s not.  A bad interviewer can take  a good subject and turn it into a trip to the dentist office. On the other hand, a good interviewer can take a mundane topic and keep you glued to the set.  The good interviewer controls where the [...]

The Countdown for Katie, A Weatherguy in TN Leaves TV for the Pulpit, and A Former Producer DOTR Removes Any Doubt He’s a Weather Guy

It appears the suits at CBS have discovered what a number of viewers have known since late last summer: Katie ain’t cutting it. Thanks for DJ for sharing this tidbit from NewsBlues about Ms. Couric.
CBS denies it, but there’s a growing sense within the network that Katie Couric has turned out to be an [...]

WPTY/WLMT Gets a New Daddy and the Big Trial is History and If You Haven’t Read It, It’s Still News

It appears ownership of yet another broadcast television group will change hands this year.  I saw in NewsBlues that Clear Channel has been sold and NOT to the group buying the NYTimes stations.  I also got an email from a former  co-worker alerting me to the information with a link.  Thanks Jose.  So folks on [...]

Multiple Deaths of U-S Civilians…Where is the Outrage? Plus, here’s something else that’s Snappy!

Imagine that some yahoos killed Americans and there’s no mention of it in the news.  It happened Wednesday.  In Iraq.  My wife and I watched an hours worth of news on MSNBC and not a mention was made of Iraq. Not one word.  Oh, they had wall-to-wall coverage of VT massacre which is a horrible [...]

Are WREG and WPTY About to Become Sister Stations?

It appears the folks buying the New York Times Broadcast group have an appetite for TV stations. An article in TVNewsday forwarded to me by SP indicates that the Oak Hill Capital partners have joined forces with another group in a bid to purchase the Clear Channel TV group. The bid is exceeding [...]

Odds and Ends on a Monday Morning

If you tune in to CNN on this Monday, expect to see folks showing off their suspenders, gallouses or braces.  I thought it was just an anomaly when I tuned in to CNN’s morning news and saw John Roberts with his coat off talking to Wolf Blitzer who also had his coat off and they [...]

Let’s Move on From the N-H-Hs I-Mess Already

First, let me assure you that this blog is my own and was not written by a producer for Katie Couric and therefore it was not lifted from another source. I know everyone feels better with that particular disclosure.
Now, to the matter at hand. I know the Don Imus firing is a big [...]

The Hazards of Duke and Apparently Stupidity IS Against the Law

Apparently Justice has prevailed in the case of the Duke Rape case. I was watching CNN when the announcement came that rape charges had been dropped against the three Duke students. My first inclination back when charges were FIRST announced was that these boys had really messed up. Then as details started [...]

I Promise to Tell the Truth, So Help Me Blog (Part Deux)

By now the bloggers on two of the biggest trials in the MidSouth have had a chance to work out the bugs on the blogs.  Where do they stand?  Here’s my take on the coverage so far on this Wednesday around 4pm.
WREG
The folks Down on the River have made the blog on the John Ford [...]