The Media: Journalism in Crisis

Whatever happened to journalism? When did American news media go from the respected, trusted purveyor of truth to anything but? How did we go from the “Glory Days of Television News” to today’s growing distrust and derision of “the media?” Is the Internet our only journalistic hope? Can we remake the media into a meaningful part of the check-and-balances system fundamental to the democratic principles on which this country was founded?Disc 1--TV/Cable News, Part One with Morton DeanDisc 2--TV/Cable News, Part Two with Morton DeanDisc 3--Newspapers, Part Three with Dr. BakerDisc 4--Media Panel Discussion--National Arts Club, NYC

Neal Cortell has a 35-year career in diverse aspects of television journalism. Neal has developed ABC Money Talks, ABC Moneyscope, American Consumer, and BusinessWeek brands, under which he produced and directed 400 national financial programs and 3,000 daily business reports that became the number one-rated of their genre. Economic programming alone under his charge has run in excess of ten years via affliates of ABC-TV, PBS-TV, Fox Business Network and WorldNet TV.