CNN Talkback Live: As good as it gets?

Authors

M. Jones, University of WollongongFollow

Abstract

The ideal of a popular gathering of citizens to participate in journalistic endeavours has been rarely realised. Many of the regular media programs that actually do employ a "talk" format with audience participation are primarily concerned with topics so sleazy that it is embarrassing to speak of them as journalism. This article describes a television talkshow, CNN Talkback Live, in Atlanta where the ideals of trying to introduce genuinely people oriented journalism are bound by organisational and journalistic constraints.

Recommended Citation

Jones, M., CNN Talkback Live: As good as it gets?, Asia Pacific Media Educator, 4, 1998, 137-142.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss4/16