Elon Musk’s vision of Twitter is a truly open platform — a ‘town square’ where people can say whatever they like. This is the essence of a Free Press. Yet this vision sends a wave of terror through the journalism community. Journalists love to champion “Free Press,” that is, until…

As an American with homes in the United States and the UK, I have had the unique opportunity to experience first hand the governments of both nations. Trust me, the UK works better. It works better for a fairly simple reason — it is really a representative government. Members of…

In 1990, when I founded Video News International, an all VJ (or MMJ) global TV news company, the concept was unique. No producers, no camera people, no editors and no on air ‘talent’. Just a journalist with a video camera. My first investor in the new business was a man…

I am a regular viewer of news on The BBC. I think they have the best news programs (or should I say programmes) in the world. I like to start each day with BBC Breakfast and end each day (as least news-wise) with BBC News At 6. Yesterday, their top…

Above all else, we humans are creatures of habit. Once we have found a way to do something, it is very hard for us to change, even if the advent of a new technology makes the old way of working impractical, or sometimes even deadly. In 1914, when the First…

I was going to write a cute story about how shop class in Jr. High School made my lifelong career in TV possible. Let’s start with that, but it becomes, trust me, much more interesting and MUCH more upsetting. Shocking, actually. But maybe I was just naive. I went to…

What do Boris Johnson and Sir Captain Tom Moore have in common? Pretty much everything. Captain Tom Moore. A nice old man, a pensioner, is about to turn 100 years old. He is living with his daughter and son in law. Having nothing to do, his son-in-law suggests he try…

I recently had a very interesting conversation with the CEO of one of the biggest department store chains in the UK. “My biggest problem,” he told me, “is feeding the damned social media.” He was old. One does not become the CEO of one of the largest retail companies in…

Tik Tok, the Chinese (Bytedance) owned video site is now the number on rated website in the world, beating out Google in February, March and June 2021, and solidly since August to now. This tells us a lot. First, it tells us about the dominance of video as a medium…