Is Brian Williams The Walter Cronkite Of The 21st Century?
Is Brian Williams the new Walter Cronkite? That's the claim MarketWatch's Jon Friedman makes in his latest column. Friedman, who admits that he did ...
Is Brian Williams the new Walter Cronkite? That's the claim MarketWatch's Jon Friedman makes in his latest column. Friedman, who admits that he did ...
W. Joseph Campbell | Posted 05.19.2010 | Books
Media-driven myths often emerge from an eagerness to find influence and significance in what journalists do. These myths affirm the centrality of the news media in public life and ratify the notion the media are powerful, even decisive actors.
AP | JIM VERTUNO | Posted 05.14.2010 | College
AUSTIN, Texas — Walter Cronkite covered the birth of space exploration, John F. Kennedy's assassination and Watergate. Yet the reporter and tel...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.22.2010 | Green
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Oil rigs expl...
Abigail Pesta | Posted 05.14.2010 | Home
I'm referring, of course, to the "S.S. United States" -- the fastest oceanliner ever built. Last week, news broke that the foreign owner of the histor...
Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.04.2010 | Media
The news media must start reporting which side's argument is correct, and stop reporting only the argument between the two sides itself.
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.23.2010 | Media
The problem is that there is no longer any source of objective and trusted information. These days, you can't find "fair and balanced" news anywhere.
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
By Stephen Viscusi Although I work on TV now myself, preparing for my own TV show "The Job's Whisperer" I started my career as a headhunter, then ra...
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 03.18.2010 | Entertainment
Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
2009 may go down as the year of celebrity deaths — in no small part due to Walter Cronkite, who passed away in July and whose September memorial...
AP | TERRY TANG | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Tw...
Jim Luce | Posted 03.18.2010 | New York
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.18.2010 | Living
I may not be British, but for the past three decades, I have kept a stiff upper lip. Now, after all these years of hair-raising adventure, I am celebrating the 30th anniversary of my mustache.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 03.18.2010 | Politics
No one contends that Tom Friedman has the influence that Walter Cronkite did, but could Friedman's anti-Afghanistan editorial mark a similar war-time shift in thinking?
Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy
"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.
AP | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas official says Walter Cronkite's papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.
Posted 03.18.2010 | Comedy
"South Park" returned last night with an episode called "I See Dead Celebrities," in which Billy Mays, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Wa...
Rob Fishman | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
It's clear that Cameron Todd Willingham was (mis)tried by a kangaroo court, but will justice be better served by the media zoo that's ensued?
The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 03.18.2010 | Media
After Walter Cronkite died this July at age 92, it was sad to think that brokers would be clamoring for an apartment that had belonged to someone with...
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 03.18.2010 | Business
Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...
Roderick Spencer | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.
Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...
AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, not in the dozens. But all through the summer of 2009 came a ...
Posted 06.02.2010 | Media