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Category Archives: Journalism
The Peter Jennings Show
Peter Jennings (1938-2005) builds his authority on the suggestion that he has been somewhere you have not. He ran ABC’s Beirut bureau and covered the Middle East for years before he took the anchor chair, back when most American viewers … Continue reading
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The Michael Jackson Show On KABC Radio
Michael Jackson (1934-2022) had a voice that came out soft, warm, and unmistakably British, a London accent sanded smooth by decades in American studios. That British accent carried across several continents to millions of listeners. He never honked like Cosell … Continue reading
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The Howard Cosell Show
Howard Cosell (1918-1995) owned a voice no one could mistake for another. Nasal, honking, pressed through the nose and out the front of the face, it cut across a stadium and a living room alike. He bent it like an … Continue reading
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The Dan Rather Show
Dan Rather (b. 1931) never had the easy baritone of a Holt or the boyish lilt of a Carlson. His voice ran taut and reedy, a Texas tenor pulled tight as a fence wire. He sounded urgent even when nothing … Continue reading
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The Lester Holt Intonation
Lester Holt (b. 1959) speaks in a deep, even baritone, the kind of voice casting directors hire for trust. The pitch sits low and stays there. He does not climb, he does not spike. The register itself signals steadiness, and … Continue reading
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The Intonation of Fox News Anchor Bret Baier
Bret Baier (b. 1970) sounds natural. While Scott Pelley performs gravity and David Muir performs urgency and heart, Baier performs neutrality, and the neutrality has its own sound such as the careful withholding of the vocal moves that would betray … Continue reading
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The Intonation of ABC News Anchor David Muir
David Muir (b. 1973) works the opposite seam from Scott Pelley, formerly of CBS News. Where Pelley flattens a sentence into an even gravity, Muir spikes it. His delivery runs on emphasis, sudden hard stresses dropped onto chosen words while … Continue reading
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Scott Pelley and the End of the Network-News Tradition
Scott Pelley (b. 1957) worked at CBS News for nearly four decades, and across that span he came to represent a professional culture whose origins trace to Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) and Walter Cronkite (1916-2009). His career runs from the … Continue reading
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Catherine Seipp and the Network That Replaced the Newsroom
Catherine Seipp (1957-2007) watched American media change from inside a city the rest of the press treated as a backwater. She held no large platform. She edited no major paper, hosted no national broadcast, owned no media company. She worked … Continue reading
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Autumn Gold: Secrecy, Time, and the Recovery of Truth
On the surface the new feature documentary Autumn Gold tells the story of veterans exposed to chemical and biological weapons testing during the Cold War, and of the journalist who carried their accounts into public view. Beneath that story sits … Continue reading
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