Michael Saltz

Gebundenes Buch

The Winding Road

My Journey Through Life and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

Beschreibung

The Winding Road: My Journey Through Life and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHourBy Michael Saltz Home, Neighborhood, City, Country, World: Signposts in Michael Saltz's ever-expanding journey into the world and the lives of millions of people as a senior producer for The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour, one of the most highly esteemed news programs in America. It's a road filled with twists and turns, with failures as well as triumphs. And stories. Some stories are personal, like having polio and listening to Bach as a young child. Others are the stories he encountered and helped create as a senior producer at The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, where he worked from before its inception in 1975 until his retirement in 2009. There are stories about big domestic events like the near-catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island and almost invisible ones like the suicide of a 16-year-old girl in upstate New York. There are the stories of largely unknown people he meets along the way: a worker at the dying Kansas City Stockyards, a folk singer in Arizona still blackballed by her fellow musicians decades after national fame, a legendary (if largely invisible) old musician in New Orleans. But also stories about more famous people like Robert Motherwell and Frank Herbert. And then there also are stories about events in revolutionary Iran, regime change in Rhodesia, Muamar Gadhafi's Libya, and Moscow in the waning years of the Soviet Union. And so many more. The NewsHour's Essays, helmed by Saltz between 1985 and 2009, were a favorite of many viewers. Roughly 1500 programs ended with these four to seven-minute commentaries that won an Emmy and two Peabody Awards. Along the way, we learn much about the creation of MacNeil/Lehrer and its evolution. We meet both MacNeil and Lehrer and what it was like to work for them. Also, there are reflections about many of the 57 writers who Saltz gathered to help create the essays. And too, there are observations about the creation of art, television, television news, and what he saw and made of everything along his journey. Clearly, it's a journey that has never ended.

Autor

Michael Saltz, a winner of an Emmy and other awards, was a senior producer with PBS's "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour." Beginning with its first iteration in 1974, he retired from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" in 2009, months before it changed to the "PBS NewsHour." In 40+ years in the industry, Saltz was involved in practically every area of TV public affairs as a producer, director, editor, and production manager. Nowadays, he spends his time writing, reading, and doing whatever retired people do at his home in upstate New York, accompanied by his wife and dog. Intermittently, he contributes op-ed columns to his local paper, "The Hudson Register-Star." "Down the Rabbit Hole," a collection of columns about the January 6th insurrection is available on Amazon.com. Also, he's a board member of School Life Media, an organization that teaches journalism - its practice and ethics - to children in the public school system.

Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9798986205618
• Artikelnr.: 64200261