Frank Beacham

Introducing Beacham's Law: As TV technology improves, there is a corresponding decline in the artistic excellence of television programming.

People are giving away their privacy online more than ever before. Sadly, they don’t seem to know or care about it.

The need for well-told, accurate news stories has never been greater.

The report has some of the best new thinking I've heard yet about what's needed to reinvent the news media in the United States.

Does anyone actually believe that hordes of Americans will climb onto their rooftops—just as in the 1950s—to install an antenna in order to receive their local DTV stations?

Surprise, surprise! Now after the shift to digital filmmaking is almost complete, we discover that archiving film for the future is more expensive than expected.

One of the great mysteries to me in these final months of the DTV transition is why call letter television stations continue to allow their news departments to operate in such an abysmal way.

There are fewer people reporting genuine, long form hard news stories today than anytime in the past 25 years.

There is no more important an issue on the agenda this new year than restoring the diversity of electronic media in the United States.

Rather than seeking truth through objectivity, news and information programs--indeed, entire networks--seek to attract an audience through a distinctive point of view.

October provided an unusually visible stress test for television news.

Rapid-fire developments in streaming media have come so fast in the past 5 years that those who follow the nascent industry find themselves in a constant time warp.