Humanities Inquiry

TV NEWS

TELEVISION NEWS:
IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS?

March 22, 2004 7 p.m.
Bainbridge Public Library
1270 Madison Ave. N. Bainbridge Island
(30 min. walk from the Bainbridge ferry terminal).

Tickets: $10 adults/ $5 students & seniors available at the door.

Information: 206-842-7901.

LINKS:

Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News? A Five-Year Study of Ownership and Quality. April 29, 2003.
www.journalism.org

Local TV News Project: In an initiative to find the correlation between quality local television journalism and ratings the Project for Excellence in Journalism brings the practice of benchmarking--identifying models of quality in an industry--to local TV news. www.journalism.org

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Despite concerns over the accuracy, profit rather than public interest motives, and questionable journalistic practices, more than seventy percent of Americans still get most of their news from their TV sets. Join a panel of experts in a discussion of the state of today's TV news, the reasons for the growing dissatisfaction with televised news programs, and the rise of "infotainment," such as dramatized news stories that emphasize crime, celebrities, entertainment, and human melodrama.

Panelists include John Arthur Wilson, former KING TV reporter and ABC News producer; Enrique Cerna, Executive Producer for Local Production, KCTS 9; Melanie McFarland, TV critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and Peter O'Connell, Assistant News Director for KING 5 News.

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