David Tereshchuk

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Network TV News to Adapt AND Die

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Network-LogosONE OF THE GRIMMER, more distressing declarations I’ve heard from a TV executive has come from Ben Sherwood, President of ABC News, just a year or so into his still-new position.

Sherwood said, in a recent interview with the New York Times‘ indefatigable Brian Stelter, that audiences themselves nowadays “pick what matters most to them, and we are trying to be adaptive.”     Continue reading “Network TV News to Adapt AND Die” »

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The Reporting Behind Two Centuries of Dickens’ Impact

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dickensPortrait2_2125956iAN UNEXPECTED CONTRAST in media modes — new and old — came through dramatically this week.

On one hand — stark, direct and unmediated — there was the worldwide transmission, via the Bambuser.com website and its anonymous user handled as “Baba-omer,” of raw images and gut-wrenching sounds out of the Syrian city Homs, as it got horrifically pummeled by mortar bombing from President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces. On the other hand, the world celebrated 200 years of Charles Dickens (pictured left) a communicator greatly loved across many cultures but without question always a very present mediator of his audience’s experience — and you might say a determined manipulator of it.    Continue reading “The Reporting Behind Two Centuries of Dickens’ Impact” »

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Mixed-Media Extravaganza — and a Global Message

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POSSIBLY THE BEST WORD for it, and it’s meant approvingly, is ‘farrago‘.

New York’s Lincoln Center, specifically its august resIdent The Metropolitan Opera, is currently wowing much of its faithful audience and enticing a newer public (which looked to me quite a younger one) with its decidedly multimedia — and multiply-sourced — confection known as The Enchanted Island.      Continue reading “Mixed-Media Extravaganza — and a Global Message” »

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