JETER Unfiltered

JETER Unfiltered

 

By

 

Derek Jeter with Anthony Bozza  - All Rights Reserved

2014

 

Photographs by Christopher Anderson

Review by

 

Sampson I.M. Onwuka 

Jeter Unfiltered reflects part of last years of Derek Jeter contractual agreement with the New York Yankees from 1996 – 2014 as a professional baseball player. Jeter writes back to the years as a Yankee beginning in 1994 at Minor Awards at the Yankee Stadium to the later years. He won 5 World Championship in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009.

 

In his words “Last year was a tough one for me. As I suffered through a bunch of injuries, I realized that some of the things that always came easily to me and were always fun had started to become a struggle.” The statement is not a summary of Jeter Unfiltered but breaks for a reason why it was upon him to ease from baseball. 

 

Composed perhaps during his recovery from a 2013 injury, the author share his authority in baseball and allow the reader to see his inner circles for the first time, including his experience – in high cash cluster environment such as New York with nerve wrecking expectation and the thrill to deliver.

 

He write with some experience and exposure on Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs, Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, etc., Joe Torre, and in his usual charisma offered less judgment that would have formed a dissent, writes about his (to) yoga classes-training season, his announcing his final years in (spare) of injuries, 2003 captain-ship of Yankees, the announcement, his family in a slovenly production curvature.

New books by young authors reflect a shift to moving pictures and to the reality that every day is important. 20yras – not enough pictures with friends/teammates – the Crux of his existence – Categories in few movements

There is obvious Lack of range, linear acrobat, pictures mainly reflected the last 2-3 years of his life a Yankee – if not the last year. Hardly mentioned anything about his family, poor memories even poor plans of future makes the book a dull and indolent effort.  We can however divide the book in three movements (dispatch)

(1)    Those dry season Yankees which ended with his arriving in 1995 (1995/96 – 2001) and early years

(2)    The resurgence of the Yankees and the transition to a new stadium from the house that ‘Rose built.’ (Captain 2003 – 2008)

(3)    The end of Steinbrenner and the financial fallout situation with Yankees - the pay cuts and the arrivals of new crop of players. His over 3, 000 hits and an aging legacy and he choose to retire.












A picture of future Captain

Booker Wade - An Introduction.

By


Sampson I.M Onwuka
 With Kristal Nook

Booker Wade was fortunate enough to have been Legal assistant to FCC Commissioner Tyrone and able to work with other people in Golden West towards creating Community Television Network  by purchasing an old New York V.H.S/ U.H.F running Gene Autry provision from the Empire States Building. This was finally accomplished with the help of F.C.C attorney Sam Cooper emphasizing the signal range of the network and the role of F.C.C as a neutral body in sorting out the problems with network and in the case of Community Television Network, it was Comcast. The commission was badly and not broadly defined. The story on his early struggles with A.T.T, Comcast, to find an audience in his network is reviewed effective by Kristal Nook as a presentation for her book on ‘I see black people’. General Manager to San Francisco KMTP – one of only a handful of African American controlled Television.

The relationship between KMTP and Comcast is not article of history but is what the occasion that television and network provision are part of the process, do not arise overnight and there are problems of recognition. The main issues is the perhaps a network that pander to a specific audience, but such entrance do not always and he witnessed the selection of the first African American as Commissioner F.C.C., especially during the carter Administration.

When asked by Nook o,n“Why did you decide to launch a television network’? his response - “Jim Winston, another former FCC attorney named Sam Cooper, and myself created the community Television Network because we saw the opportunity for a nation – wide black television network we thought . We could persuade the commission to create a new class of stations using the frequency space of low – powered television, which is substantially different from full-power. So we had a plan for about ten stations that the network itself would own, and then we would encourage others to get affiliate station in other cities", explains why such audience target and need for stations as home-base was important for any television. Illustrating the limits of expectations is a second matter which for the network mainly exposes some of the early problems of an impresario and how badly and easy a station should meet standard.

In his response to the interview, he mentioned that“For years, his station was under assault from the cable owner, Comcast (and before that AT & T), which KMTP charged in February 2000 court documents with “an ongoing sustained pattern of role violations” “willful manipulation” and “bad faith”, which was also beside the bad legs of disastrous programming from all and sundering. he had to panda to ABC, NBC, and CBS,and other networks seeking and soughing airtime.

Nook commentated that “Comcast, says Wade, dropped 70 percent of his station’s subscribers without KMTP’s knowledge in an effort to squeeze them out of business. “Their strategy”, he said when we first spoke in 2005 “is to choke us to death so that ‘ we die”

We may suggested that the far knowledge of broadcasting may exceed some of the challenges of early learning, that professional response to network inquiry and local provision add edge to a breaking network - an important discussion on the production and distribution may stay an interview for public taste. There are other material questions of time and network provision, which the book and the persons on interest did not address, especially the formation incident of corporation and maintaining subscribing audience who are the least interesting.  

I SEE BLACK PEOPLE

I SEE BLACK PEOPLE

The Rise and Fall of African-American owned Television and Radio

Author – (Kristal Brent Zook) – All Rights Reversed @2008

The book covers portions of interviews with owners of African America Networks, pointing out the need to have more African Americans in television, in advertising and in network. 

One of reasons for the poor coverage of the events of Katrina was due to little or no African American networks covering the events. She commented on the shortfalls in black television who own only 3% of all available networks. 

Among the networks and channels that seem to have survived include, Black Family Channel, T.V ONE, NABOB – National Association of Black-Owned, our T.V (WHUR) Howard University, Radio One Public, KMTP, WOL, etc., there are host of others such as WAN that are still struggling like hundreds of other Stations in the Country – like those in Memphis, New Orleans, Atlanta.  

  

She argues for the role of Viacom, DISNEY, Time Warner, News Corp., and NBC/GE, National Association of Hispanic journalists, Minority Media and telecommunications council (MMTC) in delivering on time provisions for Black Audience. 

She discusses some of the challenges that are likely to meet and reviewed certain opinions from distinguished Africa American T.V owners including COMCAST and VIACOM.

  

A review by 

Sampson I. Onwuka