Tonight at Six: A Daily Show Masquerading as Local TV News

by Michael Olesker

In Tonight at Six, veteran journalist Michael Olesker paints an intimate, behind-the-scenes picture of local television news as few have ever seen it. He describes the long slide of a medium that was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934074179
• ISBN13: 9781934074176
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Apprentice House
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Outrage Over News as Entertainment

This author's shtick is that local TV news has deteriorated to the point where it is nothing more than a sham, a farce and a mere showcase for pretty faces who read us the news without any genuine investment or skill in investigative journalism or original fact-finding. Yet, is this really something we didn't already know? Nonetheless, the author pounds it home page after page until we want to say, "Okay, I get it! Enough already !" Despite the redundancy, the outrage seems genuine, and the writing is often amusing and entertaining. Especially if you are a native Baltimorean or longterm resident. In that case, you will have a special interest in the candid exposes and (sometimes sympathetic) portrayals of well-know local news personalities and politicians. Many of whom are revealed as pompous and vapid. This is not to minimize Olesker's point that we are being misserved by bottom line organizations that are ignoring their social obligations and mission. Truth be told, this book is worth a bit of your time and makes for a pretty good read.