Pat’s Papers
Pat Kiernan, one of the morning anchors on NY1, does this thing every day where he reads the New York morning papers (something way more popular on European TV than US). Well, now he’s started a blog, Pat’s Papers, where he does the same thing for the nation’s headlines (along with links to the stories). It’s actually a really good way to get a topline on the days news (the videos are around 5 or 6 minutes) and fits in with an ideas I mentioned last year about people’s motivation for news consumption being mainly social (you consume it to discuss it, therefore you only really need the talking points).
As a side note, apparently Kiernan is also a bit of a NYC cult star. Who knew?
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nice! I haven’t thought of this segment in awhile. used to watch it every morning when I was in NYC. it’s really an organic concept similiar to theweek. …makes you wonder where their blog is!
on a similiar note, any thoughts on the WNBC newsroom makeover?
Wow, that’s hilarious. They had a character on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother who did that (read the papers on-air), but I thought that was just for comic effect, and didn’t realize it was based on a real person. Wacky.