Reviews for Beginning Radio-Tv Newswriting

The average rating for Beginning Radio-Tv Newswriting based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-07-12 00:00:00 Brenda Ecker This wasn't my cup of tea--even though he mentions tea or tea metaphors frequently in the book. He gets to the point quickly and directly, but I found he had too many extraneous points. He often throws in points with too casual of a style that throws the flow off and makes it awkward to read. Overall, I think the book could be tightened up to about half its content and not lose anything. I was hoping his would have more of a genre analysis and detailed look at the actual writing, but it fell far short of anything I was hoping to get out of the read. It has a few good points, but it is very much an absolute beginner's book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-30 00:00:00 ron delany I picked this up in my excitement over Presidential Campaign '08, but now I'm convinced that PC'08 gave me the flu. Nevertheless, I finished the book. Shogan has over 50 years of experience in covering presidential campaigns and in this book tracks what he sees as mass media's increasingly unfair and dangerously influential coverage of the American electoral process. Interestingly, although this was written in 2001, his disappointment in the reporting of style over substance and the disproportionate scrutiny that some candidates face can be seen in the 2004 elections, with, e.g., the dissemination of the dishonest Swift Boat Veterans allegations and in the current election cycle with the attention paid to Mormonism, crying, Oprah, and Chuck Norris, rather than substantial policy analysis. Good lord, there's that influenza feeling again.