Posts Tagged ‘brie burge’

Small Instrument, Big Impact

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Milwaukee Ukulele ClubI’m currently working on producing our next Sounds of the Re:Union podcast, about the Milwaukee Ukulele Club. Yes, that’s right – a ukulele club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin… not a tropical island in the Pacific.

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The 6 O’Clock News Blues

Monday, February 1st, 2010

If it bleeds it leads.

That was pretty much the mantra in news media. I worked for a TV station in Miami many moons ago, producing local newscasts. TV news is an interesting beast. It’s a furious scramble to get the breaking news on first before your competition, where death and destruction take up a majority of your newscast and where there’s a buzz in the newsroom because of the “good pictures” the chopper got while over the scene of some fatal car crash. (more…)