When people quit or are fired from on-air positions in Radio and TV, they usually just disappear from sight.One night they're hosting a newscast, the next day their name is gone from on air and on websites. By By! That's especially true when someone has been fired.
But last week two TV anchors in Bangor, Maine quit on-air, surprising just about everyone. I can just imagine the conversation with the producer, director and others in the control room as it was happened..should they kill the cameras? On their own talent?
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The Central Park Five tells the story of the arrest, conviction, and eventual freeing of five young black teens charged with a brutal rape of a white woman in the park. A violent criminal in jail for other crimes confessed that it was he, and not the teens who attacked the 28 year old white investment banker, but only after the teens had spend years in jail. Analysis? The teens and the victims were the right color and in the right place for steamrolling, even though the victim had no memory of the attack. (she was in a coma for many weeks, and many thought she would not survive the assault. If you remember the case at all, it may be because of the word "wilding", what the teens were supposedly doing in the park...running wild like a wolf pack. Whatever they were doing, they were not attacking that woman.)
The documentary is the product of Ken Burns daughter...though he had a hand in the project and calls it the most journalistic program he's done.
The City of New York has gone to court demanding that Sarah Burns turn over her complete interviews, something journalists don't do...only the parts used in the actual program.
[PLUS: The N.Y. Times reports Birmingham-based Southern Living magazine has hired Jenna Bush to write a column about The South.]
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of www.TimLennox.com]
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