When Joni Mitchell sang “You don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone”, she was referring to love and the beauty of Nature. Having recently lost – temporarily and not drastically – visual acuity in one eye, I can add a few more things to her list, and they’re not all bad.… Read the rest
As a former broadcast journalist, what I’m about to confess amounts to heresy: at the moment I neither have, nor miss having, a TV set. That’s due in no small part to being where more intimate and gentle ways measure and put the world into perspective.… Read the rest
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough”. Health concerns aside, Mark Twain’s aphorism is an apt way to measure the reporting booze-up of the Trump arraignment. Too much of nothing happening on air for too long distilled the live coverage into a vintage more akin to a cheap blend than a fine single malt.… Read the rest
Confucius once wrote: “If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant…Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.”
Putting a 2,500-year-old Chinese sage and a television news legend in the same headline might seem like incongruous overload.… Read the rest