February 2012

How Sweeps turns fact into TV fiction

February 14, 2012 5:04 pm Pacific Time · 0 comments

by Paul Skolnick

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I fell for it. It’s hard to believe, given my decades in TV news, that I’d leave the set on when the basketball game was over and the local news came on. They’d promoted a story that sounded halfway interesting. And the reason for the promo, and the reason this was a set-up, is because [...]

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Isn’t it time for ‘went missing’ to go missing?

February 8, 2012 1:08 pm Pacific Time · 0 comments

by Paul Skolnick

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I thought I’d been waging a lonely war on the phrase “went missing” for most of the last decade, but now I find myself with a new comrade in arms, my old colleague and friend, network news cameraman Armando “Arnie” Cantu of Chicago. Arnie posted that he didn’t like the new ABC-TV show “The River” [...]

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