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How I barely survived being on local television

Posted by Catherine Robinson on Oct. 5, 2009, at 1:27 pm

Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field.

Last week I got a request to appear on Studio 10, a local morning talk show in Tampa, hosted by Holley Sinn and Jerome Ritchey. They wanted to discuss my review of Capitalism: A Love Story and maybe even my blogging adventures here at CL and Out in Left Field.

Despite the fact they have no open bar, I agreed to go on the show.

Thursday morning, I arrived early and asked for the makeup room.

Lovely Receptionist blinked a few times.

“Where do you think you are?” she asked. “Oprah?”

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Tags: 10 Connects, capitalism a love story, catherine durkin robinson, holley sinn, jerome ritchie, out in left field, studio 10
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, CL TV, Movies, Television |

Media Watch: Rating the local coverage of the Super Bowl in Tampa

Posted by Wayne Garcia on Jan. 30, 2009, at 3:45 pm

For most of the Tampa Bay media, it is all hands on deck for Super Bowl coverage as we near the game on Sunday. This has been building for weeks, with the crescendo in newsprint, online sites, video and audio over the past week.

Tampabay.com's special website for the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl website on tampabay.com

Overall, though, my main thought about the coverage is: Damn! It would take a normal human being 237 years to read all of this. Most of it is ephemeral; on a blog or website front one minute, lost in the archives the next. You imagined that if the local media paid this much attention to our economy and government we would be the only metro area in the nation not suffering from a recession or corruption.

Given that caveat, here is a look at how they did, from worst to best, among the major media players in the Tampa Bay Market:

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Tags: 10 Connects, ABC Action News, Fox-13, media, Newschannel-8, St. Petersburg Times, Super Bowl, Tampa-Tribune
Posted in News, Super Bowl, Television |

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