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...host Tony Snow kept referring to Labor Secretary Robert Reich as "Senator." Snow, a conservative newspaper columnist, is a competent but colorless interviewer, and the show is loaded with superfluous gimmicks (questions from viewers sent over the Internet; clips from old Fox Movietone newsreels). Overall, the program--forced to broadcast from various locations around Washington while a permanent studio is being finished--looks rinky-dink...
...same folks who brought you the Fox Box, the glow puck and an in-studio football field are about to transform baseball, or try to. Since its first broadcast less than two years ago, Fox Sports has left a sizable imprint on televised sports with innovative gimmicks, over-the-top commentary and a philosophy of fun with games. Started from scratch when Rupert Murdoch landed an N.F.L. television contract in 1993, Fox Sports has made imitators out of skeptics. But then the whole idea of a fourth network was once considered impossible...
Hill is a transplanted Australian with little reverence for the national pastime. He was recently quoted in the New York Times Magazine as telling his executives, "If anybody talks about any dead guys during a broadcast, I'll sack 'em." (Good thing Fox didn't televise Cal Ripken's 2,131st straight game last year: "Cal Ripken has now played in more consecutive games than...anybody.") Hill explains himself: "What I meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going...
...broadcast journalists the legend of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues who covered World War II for CBS has cast its shadow for more than half a century, and for good reason. Remarkably gifted, remarkably courageous, remarkably ambitious, remarkably young--Murrow was 29 when he was sent to Europe by CBS--this "band of brothers," as Murrow and his group referred to themselves, brought the most dramatic story of the 20th century home to millions of America's radio listeners, and literally created broadcast news in the process...
...make a compelling book. But the husband-and-wife team of Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson (he's a former Washington bureau chief for TIME; she's a former correspondent for the Associated Press) is after something more ambitious with The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Houghton Mifflin; 445 pages; $27.95). The authors have given us a clear-eyed account of what happened to these luminaries as well as to broadcast journalism in the decades after World War II, in the process drawing a vivid portrait of idealists who believed that "a journalist should...