wbur.org
support wbur today!
Listen to this show
Friday, January 18, 2002 at 10:00 AM EST
The Return of Tabloid Television

The reports from Afghanistan have been replaced with in-depth discussions of Michael Jordan’s divorce and Prince Harry being caught smoking marijuana. To many, September 11th and its aftermath represented journalism’s finest hour. But in January of 2002, many are lamenting that the news industry has returned to business as usual. This hour, we look at the return of tabloid television. Has anything really changed in the news business? Is the departure from serious news all the time really a bad thing?

Guests:

Robert Thompson, Professor of Media and Popular Culture at Syracuse University;
Rory O’Connor, President and CEO of Globalvision New Media;
Normon Solomon, weekly syndicated columnist from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting;
Paula Bernstein, television network reporter for Variety Magazine

 
 

Comments are closed.

Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

Comments [31]
 
Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

Comments [73]
On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

More » | Comments [7]
 
For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

More » | Comments [5]
 
Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.
It’s a topic for our news roundtable today. What [...]

More » | Comments [4]