Recently, good ole Hank Williams Jr. got himself into hot water by calling Obama/Biden “the enemy” and comparing President Obama to Adolph Hitler (you know, the guy who MURDERED six million Jews…including one million Jewish children and many others. That guy). Was this comparison offensive? Yes! Appalling? Totally! Wrong? Yep! Was ESPN right to distance [...]
My wife and I recently attended a Missouri State home football game. It was an exciting, come from behind, win over Youngstown State and if you missed it, as my favorite Pittsburgh play-by-play man, Mike Lange would say, “shame on you for six weeks.” One of my former broadcast journalism students is on the team. [...]
The broadcast industry is changing…fast. Some of us saw it coming (I pitched my idea for doctoral research into the “effects of broadcast deregulation on practitioners of local broadcast television news” in spring of 2001) and some were blindsided. Convergence is upon us, but that’s not the real kick in the pants that the industry [...]
Almost fifteen months ago I sat in the first of a series of deposition-like meetings regarding this television show I had spent several months dreaming up. It was to be called Ozarks News Journal. At least, I hoped it would be…barring any legal complications. Several times in the past, the department of Media, Journalism and [...]
