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My friend Nancy Nall Derringer wrote a piece for SmartMoney today: 10 Things Your Local News Won't Tell You.Terry Heaton, a former TV news director now working as a Nashville-based consultant to the industry, recalls being promo-teased one night with "40 DEAD ON I-65," only to discover the casualties were pigs, killed when a livestock truck overturned. "Nothing makes viewers more resentful," he says. 1
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Diane Ensey said... "Ask yourself what you're getting," Folkenflik says. "Weather, a crime segment, a tie-in to the network's entertainment programming, a little news, some sports. Are you getting fair value for your time?" She forgot the "puppy" story. There is always some stupid feel-good story that belongs more in Reader's Digest than on the evening news. 9:12 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |