Funny how a single TV camera can turn a bustling post office into a barren wasteland…Odd how those protestors stop chanting the moment I drive away…Eerie how a bag full of dead camera batteries can cause an entire freight train to derail…Scary ho…

Funny how a single TV camera can turn a bustling post office into a barren wasteland…Odd how those protestors stop chanting the moment I drive away…Eerie how a bag full of dead camera batteries can cause an entire freight train to derail…Scary ho…

I admit it: when news broke of another shooting at Virginia Tech last week, I promptly dove under my desk. Blacksburg may be a couple hours away but in the Spring of 2007, almost every news crew within this hemisphere made a beeline for the small Virgi…

I admit it: when news broke of another shooting at Virginia Tech last week, I promptly dove under my desk. Blacksburg may be a couple hours away but in the Spring of 2007, almost every news crew within this hemisphere made a beeline for the small Virgi…

Though I was working in North Carolina television at the time, I did not know Bart Smith, Rick Sherrill or Jim Lane. But when all three men perished in the 1991 crash of WTVD’s helicopter, the impact sent shock waves through every television station in…

Though I was working in North Carolina television at the time, I did not know Bart Smith, Rick Sherrill or Jim Lane. But when all three men perished in the 1991 crash of WTVD’s helicopter, the impact sent shock waves through every television station in…

As a hardened guardian of the Fourth Estate, it’s hurts my heart to watch it all crumble. But crumble it does as the tectonic plates of television grind beneath our feet. Thanks to faltering funds, a groundswell of gadgetry and an exodus of peasants, w…