Tag: television

  • Sorry NBC, I’m watching the opening ceremonies live

    NBC’s Olympics coverage has been a decades-long exercise in frustration for me. I’ve never enjoyed their saccharine production values, and have always been annoyed by their tape delays. I know they’re trying much harder this year to make coverage available live online, but once again, NOT the opening ceremonies (to the overwhelming exasperation of the…

  • Samsung bust, boom!

    We deliberately flew into Las Vegas early so that we could attend the Samsung press conference where they were to “push the boundaries.” We stood in line for 45 minutes with what seemed to be at least a thousand other journalists, only to be stopped at the door. The event was “at capacity.” And even…

  • Every time that I step into a newsroom, I remember what it was like to live off of the electricity in the air.  It was the human buzz of stressful inquiry as events incessantly unfolded before our journalistic eyes. We’ve come to believe that this buzz is much diminished in the waning days of traditional…

  • Here’s what I wrote in the comment thread of a cross posting of my Future of Free to the MCDM’s Flip The Media blog: [W]e should not expect everything to be free. We’ve gotten used to companies “experimenting” with the internet, trying to use the old advertising model to attract eyeballs to free content. But…