Media
I knew it was coming, but it’s hard to take: Longtime TV host and radio anchor Wally Kennedy has died at 76. 6abc carried an unusually short, in my opinion, death report. The on-air TV report said he had left the station, but there was a little more to
Media
This is going to be shocking, at least to regular readers. I am going to defend Tucker Carlson, a little bit like Mark Antony speaking at Caesar’s graveside. Tucker Carlson: There is this much truth in what I say. (Photo: Bloomberg) The difference is I come neither to bury,
Media
Anchor Jim Gardner had a really good run — 46 years at 6abc, one less than the 47 I logged at the Daily News. During his last turn as anchor on Wednesday he said something about the press that mimicked what I said on my last day, three years earlier. Here’
Media
“Freedom of the press is fragile,” says Patricia Campos Mello, a Brazilian journalist who works for Folha de Sao Paulo, and who knows more than I about the subject. She is one of four journalists featured in “Endangered,” a 90-minute documentary now on HBO. It was recommended to me by
Journalism
The Uvalde media/murder horror show presents me with the opportunity for a case study in “the media,” a primer for non journalists. First, “the media” is not a unified entity. When you say, “The media does this, or the media does that,” just what “media” do you mean? Fox
Police
Here’s something I won’t put on Facebook because I just don’t have the patience to deal with the irrational blowback. In recent posts I have shown that police kill twice as many whites as Blacks, that the overall number of deaths is tiny when placed among millions