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"Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world--from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including...
3) Network
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
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[2022]
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"Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the “fine people” hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN’s...
6) The sign
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In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
7) Truth
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Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
On the morning of September 9, 2004, veteran CBS News producer Mary Mapes believed she had every reason to feel proud of a broadcast journalism job well done. By the end of the day, Mapes, CBS News, and the venerable CBS News...
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As an embedded journalist in Iraq, North got a soldier's-eye-view - often while under fire - of what mainstream media failed to report. A decorated combat veteran, he watched Operation Iraqi Freedom with trained eyes unmatched by other journalists. What he witnessed compelled him to challenge post-war critics of the operation for their uninformed and deceptive views.
10) Face the nation: my favorite stories from the first 50 years of the award-winning news broadcast
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[2004]
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Clips from the Face the nation televsion program beginning with the first program on November 7, 1954 through the war in Iraq.
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2023.
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"Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in the land, for better or worse. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. For almost three decades, Fox News has not only made political careers (see: President Donald J. Trump) but also fundamentally altered the political landscape of the United States. It is a truism: as Fox goes, so goes the...
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[2006]
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Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
14) Weather girl
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2022.
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"Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband, the station's news director, to give Ari the mentorship she wants. Ari, who runs on sunshine and optimism, is at her wits' end. The only person who seems to understand how she feels is sweet but reserved...
15) TV reporters
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[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces the dress, tools, education, and work of television reporters and their importance to the community.
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In this provocative book, one of the most experienced and learned of American foreign corrrespondents places at the feet of inadequate television news coverage the responsiblity for the disastrous turn in U.S. foreign policy. It is a must-read volume that fleshes out the already tumultuous history of the twenty
17) Truth
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"Truth" is based on a riveting true story of one of network news' biggest scandals. As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather (Redford), Mary Mapes (Blanchett) believes she's broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President's military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authencity is questioned and the casualties begin to mount. This dramatic thriller...
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2017.
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The executive producer of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary program, from its almost accidental birth through five decades of in-depth reporting by talented producers and beloved correspondents, including Harry Reasoner, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft and others.
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c2004
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Murder hits prime time when a string of television news executives and correspondents are killed, one by one. It's a high-profile case with a low-profile killer, brutally sadistic and maddeningly professional. As the list of victims grows, a street-tough NYPD cop, a beautiful tabloid reporter, and the chief suspect--a former news anchor--are ensnared in a triangle of erotic suspense that will take them into the mind of a madman.
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