Rally to Restore Sanity
The Stewart Colbert Rally earned me quite a bit of attention from the national press. Click here for those appearances.
University News
UNCG’s University Relations office put together this nice write-up of From Cronkite to Colbert.
Local TV covers From Cronkite to Colbert
Reporter Bob Buckley, whose “Buckley Report” runs on WGHP, Fox8, in central North Carolina, looks at the turn from Walter Cronkite and the Evening News to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show. View video.
Datum
This is fun. If you speak German or Austrian, you can enjoy this article from the Austrian magazine Datum about the rising popularity of The Daily Show and comedy news. I personally like being referred to as “Professor für Medienwissenschaften an der Universität von North Carolina”!
Wisconsin Public Radio
Back before the 2008 presidential election, when Tina Fey had perfected her Sarah Palin routine (“I can see Russia from my house!”) and Joe-the-Plumber was all-the-rage, I appeared on the Veronica Reuckert show on Wisconsin Public Radio to discuss politics and humor during Campaign ’08. The other discussant was Joe Garden, editor and writer from The Onion. Download mp3 || Listen (Real Player)
Geoffrey Baym is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the 
Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) traces a historical trajectory from the height of the network age and Walter Cronkite’s Evening News, to our current post-network era, when the late-night comedians now stand among the nation’s most important newscasters.