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NPR journalist, producer and commentator Daniel Schorr died last Friday at the age of 93. His passing is no tragedy; he led a remarkably full and productive life as the last practicing member of the generation that invented television news. By the time I arrived at my first job at CBS in 1976, Schorr was [...]

I just happened to watching MSNBC this afternoon when Tom Brokaw interrupted the regular programming to announce the passing of Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press. He was at work at the bureau when he collapsed suddenly. Attempts to revive him failed. He was 58 years old. I [...]

Once again, the perfidy of administration officials has been transformed into a tempest about the media itself. On Sunday, The New York Times carried two accounts of the story of Judith Miller’s jailing for her refusal to identify a source in the investigation of the Valerie Plame case. In “The Miller Case”, Don Van Natta, [...]

You really have to feel sorry for Harriet Meiers, caught as she is in the crossfire between the President and his conservative critics. No, she’s probably not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court but she isn’t the first non-jurist to be appointed, either. It’s fun to watch people like David Frum, Charles Krauthammer, Ann [...]

Since last spring, I’ve been intrigued by the possibility of creating podcasts as a sideline to my work in audio publishing. In the past few weeks, podcasting has received a major boost with the latest edition of iTunes. And now, former MTV VJ Adam Curry, the Podfather, is hosting a weekly program called Podfinder. I’m [...]

I’ve started this blog as an ongoing record of my efforts to become a freelance producer, writer and editor. I was dismissed from my full-time job earlier this week (an amicable parting) so I’m just getting used to the feeling of having no place to go for eight to ten hours a day. Very strange [...]