Category: Media

The missed photo that wasn’t

Media
by William A. Babcock

BY WILLIAM A. BABCOCK / Dozens of the United States’ best sports photo journalists are not vying today – Friday – to take the Major League Baseball photo of the year. That photo would have shown Terry Francona, the manager of the Cleveland Indians, walking past the “green monster” wall in Boston’s Fenway Park, wearing the most politically incorrect baseball cap on the planet. That would be the blue cap with a red bill, featuring a horribly stereotyped, toothy red-faced Native American nickname Chief Wahoo, sporting a large feather in his hair.

GJR book review: Is he what Ailes the media? Writer peels curtain back on Fox News chairman

Media
by Chris Burnett

BY CHRIS BURNETT / Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, is a man the media industry has learned to take seriously, even fear. Though much less well-known to the public than his boss, Rupert Murdoch, his considerable talent and work ethic is responsible for building Fox into the undisputed leader of cable television, leading the cable ratings wars the past 12 years over rivals CNN and MSNBC.

GJR book review: ‘Cronkite’s War’ — and that’s the way it is

Media
by Paul Van Slambrouck

BY PAUL VAN SLAMBROUCK / That famed broadcaster Walter Cronkite was regarded as “the most trusted man in America” probably says as much about the America of his time as it does about Cronkite. Cronkite is etched deep in American public consciousness. He was at the vanguard of television journalists who sat down for dinner each evening with the American family. He wore the face of a nation’s pain as he fiddled with his dark-framed glasses and fought back tears while announcing the death of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. On the flip side, there was common wisdom and reassurance with his nightly signature signoff: “And that’s the way it is.”