Journalist Jon Snow's stewardship made Channel 4 News the best news programme in the UK. He was a brilliant reporter and interviewer. He always seemed to be a thoroughly good human being, too.

A good interview of the man, as he brings out a memoir. By The Guardian's Zoe Williams.

@zoesqwilliams

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/21/im-a-nepo-baby-jon-snow-on-class-sanity-and-margaret-thatcher

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#UKpolitics
#NewsBroadcasting
#SonsOfBishops

‘I’m a nepo baby’: Jon Snow on class, sanity and Margaret Thatcher

Two years ago, Snow left Channel 4 News, after anchoring the show for more than three decades. Now he has written a memoir. He discusses boarding school misery, family connections and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

The Guardian

'But as I look back, it feels to me that my life has been one long audition -- an attempt to make a difference and to be accepted."' Barbara Walters  

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/barbara-walters-trailblazing-tv-icon-dies-93/story?id=41435083

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Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93

The pioneering TV news broadcaster was the first female anchor in evening news.

ABC News

When #Hollywood does #TVStudies.

The doctorate (2005, Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz), - charts the changing Hollywood representations of #newsbroadcasting across decades of corporate mergers: NETWORK,1976 to THE INSIDER, 1999.

See the #FOXNEWS star turn in INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996, 20th C. Fox)

So time for a sequel - SWING VOTE, TRUTH, BOMBSHELL, RICHARD JEWELL, esp. GONE GIRL, SHE SAID.

Plus...Robert Redford.

https://kinowords.wordpress.com/

#FilmStudies #Journalism
#Commodon #ScreenStudies

Dr. Alan Taylor (Oxon) EU

"There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education." Will Rogers, Motion Picture Actor (1879 – 1935)

Dr. Alan Taylor (Oxon) EU