Some of the big stories that are missed in the American television, is the American television itself, as a medium for disseminating news. When I was going through grad school and working as a journalist, 60 million Americans watched the so-called supper hour news every night: wow, shared experience! Today it’s 20 million, and they
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An egalitarian trend in the media is to add the perspectives of ordinary people who don’t actually have perspectives “Know it alls” and the “right people” in fashionable suburbs in my parents’ generation referred to television as the “boob tube.” Others referred to the “idiot box.” Parents denounced rock and roll radio but without the
There are workarounds in technology that are just as funny as any Goldberg cartoon What a Rube Goldberg! American cartoonist Rube Goldberg invented chain reaction – machines intended to perform a simple task in a complicated and nearly impossible way. You’ve seen a version on TV – hundreds of falling dominos pushing the next one over, releasing
05 Dec
The Changing Media
I began writing news on a typewriter. In our small and cheap broadcasting station we cut audio tape with a razor blade and even edited silent, negative film by ripping out black spots with our fingers and splicing the two pieces back together with ordinary, clear, sticky tape! You don’t have to be an expert
12 Oct
The Media and You
Like it or not, it’s almost impossible to cut yourself off from today’s news media. Step into an elevator in any office tower and you are likely to find your eyes drawn to a television monitor with a stream of numbers and stock symbols scrolling through. Restaurants, bars, waiting rooms, lobbies and even airlines have
One of Russia’s biggest foreign businessmen, Bill Browder – now persona non-grata – explains why and how he got into the thick of the media hype surrounding the Ukraine-Russia war.
06 Dec
Avant la crise…
Parce que gérer une crise passe aussi par l’anticipation, je vous propose aujourd’hui quelques conseils simples afin de vous familiariser à l’exercice.
L’organisation est l’une des clés lors de situations de crise. C’est pourquoi je vous propose un schéma simple mais efficace qui reprend les principaux pôles d’action à mettre en place en priorité.
The camera doesn’t doesn’t lie. The stuffed characters behind the head of government in COVID news conferences are always on. Who are those people standing behind the newsmaker at press conferences? I see them in the hallways of legislatures when the party leader is making an announcement. I see them in a studio behind the
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29 Mar
Radio Prep
Most often I ad lib on radio and TV or in newspaper interviews. But, in the back of my mind is former CBS TV anchor Walter Cronkite’s old quote that there’s no such thing as an ad lib. There might be a turn of a phrase you’ve never made in that exact way, but you
Interview of Allan Bonner on Sirius Radio about the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out
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20 Jan
Risk Communication
In this network television special, Allan Bonner provides tips on communicating risk. Dr. Allan Bonner has coached approximately 30,000 people to deal with some of the most controversial and public issues of our time. He has worked with heads of government, G7 and UN delegations, the WTO, NATO as well as CEO’s and diplomats around