Archive for September 11th, 2006
You might have missed it, but “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” debuted today at 3 p.m. EDT. Unusual time for a fall debut. That’s because it’s an unusual debut. The new NBC series premiered on AOL Television. It will be up for a week before its TV debut on Sept. 18th. And talk about broadband - it’s available in speeds up to 700 kbps. Next up, “Twenty Good Years” will bow on AOL TV October 4th, a week before its NBC debut.
Plus: Yahoo TV to premiere CBS’s Jericho on the 13th and NBC’s Heroes on the 18th
September 11th, 2006
Sandy Berger says the version of “The Path to 9/11″ ABC began airing Sunday night is still inaccurate, even after some editing. In a statement released Monday, Berger writes “ABC had an opportunity to edit this film to eliminate scenes that were untrue and in many cases directly contradicted by the 9/11 Report. They did not do so.” Think this one will end up as a lawsuit? “The Path to 9/11″ (Or, as I now call it, “24: With George Tenent as Jack Bauer”) continues tonight.
September 11th, 2006
Dick Kraus, a retired Newsday photographer, writes up a nice little lesson in photography ethics at Digital Journalist. He is, rightly, appalled by the Photoshoppers who are altering their work. But then, as Mark Hamilton points out, he goes over the edge: This current controversy regarding the doctoring of news photos is also appearing on blogs all over the internet. And the bloggers’ opinions are being quoted in the mainstream media as though there was credence in what they had to say. My God!! It’s bad enough that the public no longer has confidence in established media outlets, but to have them believing everything that some twit with a computer has to say on every issue boggles my mind. And then it gets worse. It’s sad that someone with Mr. Kraus’s obvious depth of experience does not and will not understand the change in the business around him. He had good points in the article, but now they’re lost on me. Mr. Kraus represents a weary old guard that could have helped new media but chose the path of the “Back In My Day” crowd instead.
September 11th, 2006
As if we needed any more reminders of what a dark day it was 5 years ago, check out the Google homepage from September 11, 2001. The addition of a few simple sentences to Google’s otherwise barren homepage gave me the chills. “Breaking News: Attacks hit U.S. Many online news services are not available because of high demand . . .” More than 80% of the top 500 queries on that day were related to the terrorist attacks.
September 11th, 2006
FT.com reports the CNBC site that’s in beta testing will have video interviews as well as real-time charts behind a subscription wall. The site is expected to launch in the U.S. at the end of the year. Also, the FT story updates NBC’s relaunch of iVillage. “It may be as common to see iVillage bringing material to the Today Show as the Today Show bringing material to iVillage,” said Bob Wright, NBC CEO. Also of note, Wright said NBC is looking at small acquisitions of marketing services companies. (Via PaidContent)
September 11th, 2006
I’m watching the CNN Pipeline free offering of the network’s 9/11 coverage and had no problem bringing it up. I’m having some buffering issues, but that may be because of my local network. Only one critique: the 16:9 aspect ratio of Pipeline stretches the 4:3 presentation disconcertingly. It’s still a compelling presentation. Also, MSNBC.com is streaming NBC’s live coverage, as it happened. As I sit in the newsroom where I was that day, it’s a flashback that has compressed the time between then and now into next to nothing. Share your thoughts in the comments below - what you remember, and maybe who you lost that day. I’ll start: I still miss you, Stu. Every day.
September 11th, 2006
We welcome the Hollywood Reporter to the convergence media blog arena, another in a series of what Rex calls “Lost Remote Killers.” The good news is that it’s by pal Steve Bryant of Ziff-Davis “Google Watch” fame who is a friend of LR, links to us, and is somewhat less likely to want to bury us. Reel Pop focuses more on the movie industry’s attempts at online, so obviously Steve will have plenty of funny stories about the sheer reluctance of Hollywood to do anything innovative. We wish him well.
September 11th, 2006
