Bob Schieffer

5--- This Just In: What I Couldn't Tell You On TV, by Bob Schieffer (read 30 Jul 2023) This was published in 2003, which is when I should have read it. It s a fascinating account of the author's account of his reporting career and is full of judgments of the people making news in those days. I wonder what he says or would say about today's weird political scene when it appears as if the Republicans might nominate the only candidate who can lose and suggests I maybe should favor that so Biden wins.

gOP doing that.… (més)

If you're a Network TV news junkie, or a member of the Bob Schieffer fan club, you'll thoroughly enjoy this book. If you stayed high during the 60's, and don't remember the Cuba Missle Crisis, the '68 Democratic convention in Chicago, or subsequent events like Watergate, Spiro Agnew, or Whitewater, you'll enjoy the nostalgia of the review of those events. Schieffer is a good writer and story teller, but the book is pretty much a walk-through of events from his broadcast life, without much or any unknown behind the scenes details of the news as it was broadcast.… (més)

I believe the media has been hanging round and judging itself for so long they do not even realize how dishonest and unfair they have become. This book is another example of that. These people from the Washington Post or the New York Times or network news believe they are journalists but they cannot write a story without inserting their ideology into the equation. Their disdain for our President is mentioned page after page. I do not see equal unfair treatment of Obama. This is a poor excuse of a book. Two thumbs down, way down.… (més)

5551. Overload Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News, by Bob Schieffer with H. Andrew Schwartz (read 12 Apr 2018) This is a 2017 book by Bob Schieffer, whose work for CBS television I have long appreciated. He tells of his work as a reporter and newsman, with attention to the politics of 2016 and the challenge Trump's presidency is to news people. He has good advice to reporters and discusses the challenge of fake news. Included in the book is an article by Donald Fahrenthold detailing his effort to find the truth about Trump's alleged gifts to charities allegedly running into millions of dollars, which also related the facts in regard to the infamous video of Trump's conversation about what he could do to women because he was so famous. The book is full of good information in regard to what journalists need to do in order that people will be well informed.… (més)