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Watching the Web
WATCHING TELEVISION sure has changed in the past 20 years. Most of the change has been technology, not content-driven. The remote control, of...
Oakland Tribune, 12/01/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
MediaNotes: Unlike first believed, Twitter not for twits
WHO KNEW RESPECTED NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell was a hardcore Redskins fan? Or that ex-Fed Chief Alan Greenspan's wife watched football at all?...
Oakland Tribune, 12/01/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
MediaNotes: Radio personality Dave Ross understands the media
FIVE YEARS AFTER he offered to buy me lunch, I finally took radio commentator Dave Ross up on it. I just had to go to Seattle to do it. It was...
Oakland Tribune, 11/19/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
Bill Mann: Football's violence seemingly lost on fans
I'VE WASTED TOO MANY Sunday afternoons watching the Raiders invent new ways to lose on TV. But in the end, most football players -- high school,...
Oakland Tribune, 11/05/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
MediaNotes: Now-Palin free, Juneau, Alaska is quiet again
NOTES FROM A highly unlikely former media destination: It's not often I find myself in Juneau, Alaska. It was the first time, in fact. When I saw a...
Oakland Tribune, 10/08/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
Bill Mann: Internet radio brings the world to your home
LIKE SOME OF YOU, I've listened to radio on the net for years. And also, popular free music service Pandora, where you can program your own...
Oakland Tribune, 09/24/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
MediaNotes: Ross McGowan is a real class act
BAY AREA MEDIA Roundup: Ross McGowan, who retires from KTVU's "Mornings on 2" next month after 15 years, may not have been the hardest-hitting...
Oakland Tribune, 09/10/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
MediaNotes: Blogging? It's trickier than it looks
'WHAT'S THE difference between writing a column and blogging?" an East Bay newspaper colleague asked the other day. I've written columns since...
Oakland Tribune, 08/27/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
Bill Mann: Radio Hall of Fame tainted by extreme host
I READ WITH dismay that The Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame has decided to include among its class of 2009 honorees KSFO's poisonous morning...
Oakland Tribune, 08/13/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication -
Bill Mann: Video journalists handling TV coverage create uproar in
THIS TV CRITIC has always enjoyed weekend newscasts. That's when the "second stringers" come in. There are often misspelled graphics and other...
Oakland Tribune, 07/30/09 by Bill Mann · More from publication
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