Re: [TV orNotTV] Supremes find against Aereo

2014-07-01 Thread Joe Hass
(pounding table) YES. YES, YES, YES!

Though I'd note that it's much more likely that the justices get mobile
devices because they have them and can comprehend the idea that there's a
lot of stuff on there.
On Jun 30, 2014 9:17 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV 
tvornottv@googlegroups.com wrote:

 Compounding the frustration was the appearance of the Court 'getting it'
 on the case where they ruled a warrant was necessary to search a cell
 phone, even if found during arrest.

 David

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 Compounding the problem is that the people who live in that cross-section
 (understand the tech, practice law) were probably already in Aereo's
 corner, while the networks probably brought in this guy:

 http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/2/2a/Hyperchicken.jpg/225px-Hyperchicken.jpg
 The young whippersnappers didn't have a chance in the Roberts court.

 On Monday, June 30, 2014 7:36:08 PM UTC-4, Joe Hass wrote:

 The problem, as is so often the case, lies somewhere in between. The
 population of people who get this technology and is licensed to practice
 law is small. Adding the filter of making it understandable to people
 outside the field makes it even smaller. And while it would be nice to
 always have that small of a population involved in every case, it can't
 always happen.
 That said, I expect good members of the judiciary to be able to educate
 themselves on issues that face them. Depending solely on the data presented
 in the courtroom tends to lead to really shitty decision making. And when
 it comes to the highest court in the land, if they can't get one of their
 clerks to go do some research, then I'd gently encourage them to GTFO the
 bench and let people who are willing to have a crack at this.
 On Jun 25, 2014 6:45 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think Doug is right about this; it is the job of the advocates involved
 to provide the court with the required background and context to understand
 the legal arguments. They do this in their briefs and supporting documents,
 and in their oral argument. You may be right that the court did not
 properly understand the issues, but even if so, I would place most of the
 blame for that on the lawyers arguing the case.

 Also, I would not put too much weight on what the justices say in their
 questions during oral argument. They have very bright, very young clerks
 who write their own briefs and drafts after oral argument and before voting
 and writing supporting and dissenting opinions, so that even if there were
 mistaken assumptions during questioning at oral argument, a lot of those
 are typically corrected and modified prior to voting and writing.

 Obviously I am not saying SCOTUS always gets it right (particularly the
 Roberts Court); but I don't think many of their problems stem from a
 failure to understand technical details of whatever field the case is
 framed in.

 For the record, while there has been some public discussion of Justice
 Elena Kagan's sexual orientation, I believe it is non-controversial that
 she identifies as a cis-female.


 On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Kevin M. drunkba...@gmail.com wrote:




 On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Doug Fields do...@flids.net wrote:

 I would think that that’s the entire purpose of the oral arguments and
 briefs before the Court.  If I were arguing a complicated case, be it a new
 technology or any other sort of esoteric concept, I think it would be in my
 best interests to find somebody who can translate those concepts into terms
 understandable to a group of middle-aged judges, **because** they
 shouldn’t be expected to have the working knowledge to understand the
 subject beforehand.


 Pouring through the transcript now. Might have to switch to the audio of
 the oral arguments (I'm about 20 pages in and want to throw my laptop
 across the room), but the transcripts seem to back my perspective. From the
 first few minutes of the oral arguments, they've defined a cable company as
 a business that receives signals or programs broadcast by television
 stations. Justice Breyer compares phonograph records in a music store to
 a public performance. Then there's this from Justice Kagan, if Aereo has
 the hardware in its warehouse as opposed to Aereo selling the hardware
 to the particular end user, that is going to make all the difference in the
 world as to whether we have a public performance or not a public
 performance, which illustrates that the concept of a nebulous cloud with
 non-localized storage is so far above his head it is laughable and sad at
 the same time.

 Both the military and the IRS have their own courts because the
 specificity of their laws require some knowledge to render opinions. I'm
 simply suggesting these people, wise as they may be in the law, don't
 comprehend the 

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: CBS finds something Seacrest can host

2014-07-01 Thread Joe Hass
He truly is the new Dick Clark, which was the answer of one of my favorite
trivia questions: Who, in 1985, had regular shows on all three TV
networks?
On Jun 25, 2014 1:42 PM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote:

 So he's got a long-term deal with NBCU for E! and Today, hosts Idol on
 Fox, NYRE on ABC and now this on CBS...we're going to have to invent a new
 broadcast network just to get away from Seacrest...

 On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 11:24:04 PM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote:

 He'll also be an executive of *Fashion Rocks*, a NY Fashion Week-set
 special co-produced with Macy's, who oddly is developing a Ry-branded line
 of suits and accessories... second item in a THR piece
 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/ryan-seacrests-new-deals-more-714161
 (link) where he signed an NBCU deal that continues his red-carpeting but
 lightens up on *Today* and sports for the time being...

 B

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Re: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread Joe Hass
I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking
news anchor than Ms Sawyer?
On Jun 25, 2014 10:27 AM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am trying to remember if there has ever before been a time when the
 anchor of a network evening news broadcast was not the Chief anchor of news
 division (which is what Stephanopoulous's title will now be)? It seems to
 me than even when guys like Cronkite, Brinkley and Brokaw stepped down,
 their replacements as evening news anchors were clearly the senior anchors
 for the news division, and would lead coverage of any major story. This
 kind of feels like to me ABC is saying George is our best news guy, but we
 make too much money in the morning to risk putting him on an evening show
 that nobody watches anyway.


 I think you are generally right, but my interpretation is
 that Stephanopoulous lobbied to become evening anchor and was turned down
 in order to keep him at the morning show. Being named breaking news anchor,
 probably with a considerable pay raise, kept him from making a stink or
 talk about leaving ABC at the end of his contract.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread Steve Timko
As far as current news anchors, it seems like there's Brian Williams and
then there's everyone else. Am I missing something?


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking
 news anchor than Ms Sawyer?
 On Jun 25, 2014 10:27 AM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am trying to remember if there has ever before been a time when the
 anchor of a network evening news broadcast was not the Chief anchor of news
 division (which is what Stephanopoulous's title will now be)? It seems to
 me than even when guys like Cronkite, Brinkley and Brokaw stepped down,
 their replacements as evening news anchors were clearly the senior anchors
 for the news division, and would lead coverage of any major story. This
 kind of feels like to me ABC is saying George is our best news guy, but we
 make too much money in the morning to risk putting him on an evening show
 that nobody watches anyway.


 I think you are generally right, but my interpretation is
 that Stephanopoulous lobbied to become evening anchor and was turned down
 in order to keep him at the morning show. Being named breaking news anchor,
 probably with a considerable pay raise, kept him from making a stink or
 talk about leaving ABC at the end of his contract.

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Re: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread Kevin M.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking
 news anchor than Ms Sawyer?


 To me, it isn't about who the better anchor is. It's about which network
is in the best position to provide on-the-ground coverage of breaking news.
By virtue of the fact NBC news has to provide news coverage to the main
network as well as MSNBC (and, to an extent, Univision), they have a slight
advantage in terms of the budget they can set aside for reporters and
bureaus. Their affiliates have also been the least likely to farm work out
to other cities (I think I read there's now a Fox affiliate in Florida
somewhere whose newscast is produced almost entirely in Maine), so they
have local talent to draw from when things occur.

Prior to the death of Peter Jennings (let's all pause and sigh about that
for a moment), I think ABC did the best job of allocating resources.
Network news did the wraparounds, Nightline provided in-depth analysis, and
20/20 did investigative (albeit biased) reporting... there was a balance to
it all, and an ability to borrow from each branch as needed. CNN may have
had more experts back then, but they weren't as strategically positioned.
But all that has dramatically changed. I wouldn't trust ABC to tell me the
time of day.



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[TV orNotTV] Re: Onetime top LA paper's offices live on as studios

2014-07-01 Thread K.M. Richards
Fun factoid #2,973: The Her-Ex building was also the location of the 
Associated Press' Los Angeles bureau and took up most (if not all) of one 
floor, as it also handled the west coast print and broadcast wire feeds.

If memory serves, the AP remained there for several years after the paper 
shut down.

On Monday, June 30, 2014 8:22:41 AM UTC-7, Bob Jersey wrote:

 The Herald Examiner building 
 http://www.herald-examiner-los-angeles-filming-location.com/ (link), 
 11th and South Broadway, has hosted at least 1250 shoots for a yooge list 
 of movies and series since the paper folded in the late 80s...


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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Onetime top LA paper's offices live on as studios

2014-07-01 Thread Steve Timko
The Herald-Examiner wasn't a bad paper. It was an afternoon paper owned by
Hearst. It didn't have the expansive coverage of The Los Angeles Times,
whose Sunday edition seemed as thick as a phone book each week, but
benefited greatly by comparison with Daily News, owned by Jack Kent Cooke
and then by Dean Singleton, when it really went into decline.


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:22 AM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote:

 Fun factoid #2,973: The Her-Ex building was also the location of the
 Associated Press' Los Angeles bureau and took up most (if not all) of one
 floor, as it also handled the west coast print and broadcast wire feeds.

 If memory serves, the AP remained there for several years after the paper
 shut down.


 On Monday, June 30, 2014 8:22:41 AM UTC-7, Bob Jersey wrote:

 The Herald Examiner building
 http://www.herald-examiner-los-angeles-filming-location.com/ (link),
 11th and South Broadway, has hosted at least 1250 shoots for a yooge list
 of movies and series since the paper folded in the late 80s...

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Re: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread calwatch
Um, CBS? Pelley is a reasonable, serious alternative. I don't think he does
disasters well (Brian Williams is great with that) but if the stock market
plunges a thousand points or the US invades another foreign country I would
go to CBS.


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Steve Timko steveti...@gmail.com wrote:

 As far as current news anchors, it seems like there's Brian Williams and
 then there's everyone else. Am I missing something?


 On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:

 I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking
 news anchor than Ms Sawyer?
  On Jun 25, 2014 10:27 AM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:22 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am trying to remember if there has ever before been a time when the
 anchor of a network evening news broadcast was not the Chief anchor of news
 division (which is what Stephanopoulous's title will now be)? It seems to
 me than even when guys like Cronkite, Brinkley and Brokaw stepped down,
 their replacements as evening news anchors were clearly the senior anchors
 for the news division, and would lead coverage of any major story. This
 kind of feels like to me ABC is saying George is our best news guy, but we
 make too much money in the morning to risk putting him on an evening show
 that nobody watches anyway.


 I think you are generally right, but my interpretation is
 that Stephanopoulous lobbied to become evening anchor and was turned down
 in order to keep him at the morning show. Being named breaking news anchor,
 probably with a considerable pay raise, kept him from making a stink or
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Re: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread Diner


On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 12:44:04 PM UTC-4, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:



 To me, it isn't about who the better anchor is. It's about which network 
 is in the best position to provide on-the-ground coverage of breaking news. 
 By virtue of the fact NBC news has to provide news coverage to the main 
 network as well as MSNBC (and, to an extent, Univision), they have a slight 
 advantage in terms of the budget they can set aside for reporters and 
 bureaus. Their affiliates have also been the least likely to farm work out 
 to other cities (I think I read there's now a Fox affiliate in Florida 
 somewhere whose newscast is produced almost entirely in Maine), so they 
 have local talent to draw from when things occur. 

 Prior to the death of Peter Jennings (let's all pause and sigh about that 
 for a moment), I think ABC did the best job of allocating resources. 
 Network news did the wraparounds, Nightline provided in-depth analysis, and 
 20/20 did investigative (albeit biased) reporting... there was a balance to 
 it all, and an ability to borrow from each branch as needed. CNN may have 
 had more experts back then, but they weren't as strategically positioned. 
 But all that has dramatically changed. I wouldn't trust ABC to tell me the 
 time of day. 



Agreed. I was a loyal viewer of ABC News from the Frank Reynolds era until 
the retirement of Charlie Gibson. Shortly after Diane Sawyer took over, ABC 
had a big round of cost-cutting where they let several reporters go - 
including Brian Rooney, who seemed to be in every California city at once. 
Rooney took an early retirement package, and his job was not filled. When I 
read that, I realized that ABC was now giving me less news than it used to. 
So I switched over to Brian Williams, because he works for a network that's 
able to devote more of its resources to news.

I think ABC did very little to diminish their news-gathering capability in 
the Jennings/Koppel era. After Jennings died in 2005 and Koppel retired a 
few months later, things started to slide.


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RE: [TV orNotTV] News Changes at ABC

2014-07-01 Thread Melissa P
Not really related to the subject, but anyway…

 

A few weeks ago, I made a special point of watching Fox News in the morning for 
more than hour because I wanted to know how it was covering the latest climate 
change report.  The subject didn’t even get a mention even though it was a 
leading story on all the broadcast networks, the New York Times, and the 
Washington Post.

 

Today, I made a special point of being around to catch the news on The Today 
Show because I wanted to hear its coverage (Pete Williams) of yesterday’s two 
Supreme Court rulings.  They didn’t get a mention.

 

I hate having to cut Fox News some slack now.  The Today Show’s lack of 
coverage of the Supreme Court decisions makes it difficult for me to complain 
about Fox News’ highly selective reporting.  And, I’m annoyed.

 

BTW I prefer Brian Williams, too.

 

 

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:

I don't watch network TV news, but is Mr Stephanopolous a better breaking news 
anchor than Ms Sawyer?

 

To me, it isn't about who the better anchor is. It's about which network is in 
the best position to provide on-the-ground coverage of breaking news. By virtue 
of the fact NBC news has to provide news coverage to the main network as well 
as MSNBC (and, to an extent, Univision), they have a slight advantage in terms 
of the budget they can set aside for reporters and bureaus. Their affiliates 
have also been the least likely to farm work out to other cities (I think I 
read there's now a Fox affiliate in Florida somewhere whose newscast is 
produced almost entirely in Maine), so they have local talent to draw from 
when things occur. 

 

Prior to the death of Peter Jennings (let's all pause and sigh about that for a 
moment), I think ABC did the best job of allocating resources. Network news did 
the wraparounds, Nightline provided in-depth analysis, and 20/20 did 
investigative (albeit biased) reporting... there was a balance to it all, and 
an ability to borrow from each branch as needed. CNN may have had more experts 
back then, but they weren't as strategically positioned. But all that has 
dramatically changed. I wouldn't trust ABC to tell me the time of day. 





 

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Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: CBS finds something Seacrest can host

2014-07-01 Thread M-D November
Although of the three (25k Pyramid, American Bandstand, TV's Bloopers  
Practical Jokes), only one was in primetime.

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