Here's the latest news about TV that I read and that you should read too:
■ "Feasting on the adulation of others" - we're all Norma Desmond now.
■ Are you able to guess what FOX News (StarSat 261) in the United States and Netflix have in common?
■ South African mine worker turned Los Angeles reality TV director Reinhardt Vermeulen:
"When I was working underground in the mines, I never in a million years would have thought that I would be here today."
■ Exiting MSNBC (StarSat 263) producer writes a scathing letter: America's TV ratings model for news channels "Blocks diversity of thought and content", "incentive is to amplify fringe voices and events", calls TV news "a cancer".
■ Staffers working for China's CGTN (DStv 409 / StarSat 266) say the TV channel struggles to be effective because it's trying to do too much at once and lacks the ability to discern the type of news and presentation of stories that appeal to international audiences.
■ "Television can be a brutal business."
Fired Australian TV news anchor speaks (subscription required).
■ Brown voices matter - but not to New Zealand's TVNZ.
■ See how the damage looks and the wreckage of the Beirut bureau of CNN International (DStv 401) after Tuesday's blast.
■ Ghana's Cyber Crime Unit arrest the managers of 2 Ghana TV stations - AB TV and Amen TV - over fraud.
- News anchor Selikem Acolatse leaves Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) after 13 years.
■ Look at these 5 reality TV mansions: Which Real Housewives home would you buy?
■ Sunrise Surprise: A naked man interrupts the shot of WABC reporter in New York City.
■ Who's the Boss? reboot sequel planned at Sony Pictures Television with Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano.
Sequel will take place 30 years after the events of the original with Samantha Micelli now living as a single mother in the house the original series was set in.
■ MultiChoice adds Radio Luanda Antena Comercial (LAC) to DStv in Angola.
■ Judge Judy is back in court, promises to eat a contract with cream cheese if it can be produced in a new dispute.
■ Ellen Pompeio says she would probably have left Grey's Anatomy seen on M-Net (DStv 101) after the 6th season but decided to go after money and stability and not chase film roles and a career.
■ The MUST READ non-TV story of the day: Our society's largest attempt to communicate across the abyss of time:
How to warn humans - or those who come after us - about our bunker storage of our nuclear waste - with a message that could survive 10 000 years.
