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KING in the 50s
Well I guess I’ll post something KING-related for some of my readers. Throughout most of the 1950s, BMI hosted a bi-yearly “Television Talks” clinic held in various cities around the US for the benefit of news directors, engineers and other station personnel to meet and share ideas. In 1957, KING Read More →
The forgotten photog at Pearl
Al Brick of Fox Movietone News covering the immediate aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Brick was driving a friend back to the USS Arizona, aboard which the friend was stationed at. Brick of course had his cameras in Read More →
Ethics made simple
The news business seems to get more complicated all the time. Journalists are expected to work faster, file more often and serve more outlets. With less time to think, mistakes can happen and errors can be costly. News outlets lose credibility; journalists can lose their jobs. The recent case involving the venerable CBS News program …
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Read More →Thanksgiving Day…
On Thanksgiving Day fifty-three years ago, one of the most celebrated of Ed Murrow’s television documentaries aired – CBS Reports: Harvest of Shame. The two photogs who shot it, most of you probably wouldn’t recognize their names….Martin M. “Marty” Barnett and Charles J. “Charlie” Mack. Its a shame that unlike Read More →
A Lot of Trouble for Cheap Stuff.
There’s a Walmart in downtown Los Angeles. I’m not a fan of their business practices, but I’ve shopped there before and will likely shop there again. Any time new folk are on the road covering stories away from home, it is com…
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