Toshi Ochiai·Oct 22Documenting My Television Work, 30 Years LaterI once translated more than 500 CBS news and documentary programs for Japanese television.
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Oct 17The Bari FinaleAfter months of watching CBS reinvent itself, I realized I was still reviewing a show I’d stopped watching years ago.A response icon1A response icon1
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Oct 10Before They Tore Apart the Machine, Two People Tried to Save ItBill Owens and Wendy McMahon have finally explained why they walked away from CBS News. Their accounts suggest the fight over 60 Minutes…
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Oct 3David Ellison Says He Wants to Preserve History. CBS Is Where We Find Out If He Means It.As Paramount and Warner Bros. prepare to become Skydance, David Ellison says the point is to preserve the identities of the institutions he…
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Sep 26Everyone Keeps Declaring Frankenstein Dead. The Damn Thing Keeps Walking.Two episodes into CBS’s rebuilt 60 Minutes, the ratings are messier than the headlines, the new correspondents are finally doing the work…
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Sep 19They Tore Apart the Machine. Now Someone Inside CBS Is Calling It Frankenstein.60 Minutes came back looking remarkably like 60 Minutes. Then the ratings fell, the staff started talking, and the first week of Bari…
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Sep 12They Tore Apart 60 Minutes. Sunday, We Find Out What They Built.After a summer of firings, accusations, strange hires, celebrity experiments and warnings from the people who built the institution, CBS…
Jeff Fager·Sep 7What Bill Paley Taught Me About Television And What People Want to WatchThe London Bureau carried real weight at CBS News, and for good reason. It’s where Edward R. Murrow reported from during World War II, and…
InFalse LightbyA.L. Bellettiere (Anna Louise Bellettiere-Kuyper)·Sep 5They Tore Apart the Machine. Then They Discovered Why the Machine Had So Many Parts.The outsiders came to reinvent 60 Minutes. With the new season days away, they’re discovering that some of what looked like institutional…
Jeff Fager·Aug 31How I Talked My Way Into CBS NewsIn early 1982, I was producing the 11 o’clock news in San Francisco for KPIX, a CBS station. Diane Sawyer, who was an anchor at CBS News at…
