Foreword
They tell me that time has not speeded up, and that there are exactly as many minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a week, and weeks in a year as there were when the first edition of Ted White’s fine how-to-do-it book on broadcast news was published. I don’t believe it though. It seems to me that the world must be spinning faster and time must have accelerated for so many events to have unfolded and so much to have changed so much. News has been called the first draft of history, but the pace of change both in the wide world we cover and inside the smaller universe of broadcast news, has been such that the first draft of anything these days requires constant revision.
Few things are as they were before the attacks of 9/11. “The ...
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