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Watching the Watchdog: 50 Years of Journalism & It's all the Same

Tim Knight | Posted 11.14.2012 | Canada
Read More: Zambia, Crime, Politicians, Police, Bbc, Central Africa, Weather, Cbs, Rescue Workers, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About How to Be a TV Journalist in the 21st. Century but Didn?T Know Who to Ask or STORYTELLING and the ANIMA FACTOR, Tv, Journalism as Public Service, Amazon, Canada News
Tim Knight

Once upon a time I wrote a book about being a journalist in the 21st century. I was leafing through its pages last evening, when I stopped at the chapter The Less Things Change... It's about my time, 50 years ago, working as reporter/anchor at a startup TV station in Zambia. The chapter starts by describing how we got our foreign news film back there in the 60s. Even after all these years, much is still the same.

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Watching the Watchdog: Will Microsoft Produce the Next Walter Cronkite?

Tim Knight | Posted 09.19.2012 | Canada
Read More: Journalists, Social Justice, Responsibility, Request for Applicants, Storytelling, MSNBC.Com, Microsoft World News, National Amusements, Cbs, Redemption, Journalism, Social Media, Congo, English, Shining Jewel in Crown of Democracy, Tiffany Network, Letter of Resignation, Courage, Tv Industry, Viacom, Journalistic Excellence, Surrogates, Union, Nation, Abc, Microsoft, Antitrust Laws, Participatory Democracy, God?S Autograph, Most Trusted Man in America, Public Interest, Westinghouse Electric, Edward R. Murrow, CBS Evening News, Free Marketplace of Ideas, Golden Age for TV News, Loyalty, Walter Cronkite, Accountability, Servants, Canada News
Tim Knight

Once upon a time when the world was young and had hope, and global warming, the one per cent and social media hadn't yet been invented, there truly was a golden age for TV news in North America. Could Microsoft bring that golden age back since its split from MSNBC?

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