The Newslife : From Arkansas to Aruba

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The reader will find in these pages many of the faults of the self-published book: Getting past these faults, there is a wealth of information useful to someone who wants to understand the odd, Byzantine inner workings of TV news operations, a process much more intricate and multilayered than most people realize. The truly challenging inner workings in these pages, however, belong to Steve himself, who gives us a cautionary tale about the level of sacrifice that this tangled business can exact from the folks who labor in it.

As you read, you might find yourself wondering how, with all his many turns of fortune, he has preserved his enthusiasm for the TV business. And in this matter- getting us to understand why he keeps coming back for more- Steve does himself, and the reader, an injustice, one which seems odd to me.

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He doesn't take enough space to fully contextualize his own story through the history of broadcasting, most particularly the fascinating events, styles and innovations of the early s. In those years, TV went 'live via satellite' for the first time, space shots were televised in continuous, fact-encrusted hours, political and social upheavals of historic proportion were available for all of us to see, not fixed and still on newsprint, but in full, live, often heartbreaking motion. The TV news folks who brought us those events seemed to be doing a service, and to want to be part of that seemed like a noble impulse.

By not giving us a real taste of the flavor of that time, he fails to suggest that there might have been much more at work in his career choices than simple ego. As a former history professor, it seems natural that he would have taken more time to put his news career into that more complete, historical context. Our sense of his motives is, then, defined in too narrow a way, and it is odd that he doesn't engage those ideas more fully.

We watch Steve wrestle with any number of difficult tasks, including his sincere efforts at personal growth, efforts which are not completely compatible with corporate ambition. If there is a takeaway from this aspect of 'Newslife', it perhaps is the awareness that sacrifices made to ambition aren't necessarily reflexive, but can be made to be reflective. In other words, one can always think about the larger, cosmic meaning of your struggles, and attempt to come up with some way of getting it right next time.

This is perhaps the largest value of this book- both for the the author as well as the reader- that our days, which are littered with trip-ups, pain and doubt, also offer up the seeds of personal epiphany and compassion, things which have true value only when we engage with others.

These hard-won truths are not necessarily the ones we expect to learn from a turn on the corporate wheel, but when we get them, they can be, in the last analysis, our most valuable and enduring personal truths. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

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The Newslife : From Arkansas To Aruba

This fast-paced retrospective examines the infancy and growth of local news in both large and small markets, and the power brokers who made it all happen. The story is told through the eyes of Steve Cohen, a news legend who helped launch and mentor countless television journalists and news executives as they rose and fell in the competitive, technically expanding newsroom environment and culture of the s and beyond. The nature of those people and their need to "get the story" above everything else, is contrasted against the emotional toll and accompanying soul-searching that is part and parcel of a career as a rising newsroom executive and leader.

The author is shockingly honest, revealing his own self-doubts and weaknesses during his rise to the top, and his fall from it, only to rise again and again. It is both funny and sad. Cohen relates the real deal as to what really happened over the last 40 years in a few of the biggest newsrooms in the country, and where he thinks local news is going today.

At every outpost a collection of hard working, young journalists about to be stars, and factors in television news emerge. Their names fast becoming household names. What were they like, when they were full of hope, and the art of doing television news was emerging in full form. And what was the cost of it all, as they burned their images into Americas psyche?

THE NEWSLIFE : FROM ARKANSAS TO ARUBA

And what was the Newslife like for the author , who saw it all, did it all, and emerged to tell this tale? It is the life of a practicing newsman who ran operations from New York to Los Angeles, with side trips to help launch and create COURT TV, run broadcast stations, a network for long haul truck drivers, and work on the Natalee Holloway case for Aruba. It is a journey that leaps from a small newsroom in rural Arkansas to the largest newsroom of its' time in New York at CBS.

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The best known broadcast journalists of a generation bump into each other on their way forward in their careers. At every outpost a collection of hard working, young journalists about to be stars, and factors in television news emerge.

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Their names fast becoming household names. What were they like, when they were full of hope, and the art of doing television news was emerging in full form. And what was the cost of it all, as they burned their images into America's psyche? And what was the Newslife like for the author , who saw it all, did it all, and emerged to tell this tale? A blazing account of a life lived in America's television newsrooms.

Leia mais Leia menos. Comece a ler The Newslife: Detalhes do produto Capa comum: Seja o primeiro a avaliar este item. Compartilhe seus pensamentos com outros clientes. Steve Cohen's 'Newslife' is a memoir filled with high-octane people and their works; many of them will be familiar to anyone who knows the history of TV broadcasting during the last four decades.

I have heard fragments of many of these stores during the intervening years, and it is fascinating to see them fleshed out in print. This book of over pages is a magnum opus by anyone's standard; tales of its creation have been heard from afar for years.

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