Keith Oppenheim
CommentatorKeith Oppenheim, Associate Professor in Broadcast Media Production at Champlain College, has been with the college since 2014. Prior to that, he coordinated the broadcasting program at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan (near Grand Rapids). Keith was a correspondent for CNN for 11 years and worked as a television news reporter in Providence, Scranton, Sacramento and Detroit. He produces documentaries, and his latest project, Noyana - Singing at the end of life, tells the story of a Vermont choir that sings to hospice patients.
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In the hills of Entebbe, the sound of children鈥檚 voices fill a courtyard between a compound of small buildings. Now and then, a lanky man with a short鈥�
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In the world of local television, WCAX has been a rarity. It was the last independently owned and operated CBS station 鈥� and one of the few mom and pop鈥�
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Bill O鈥橰eilly鈥檚 ouster really is a big deal. Time was when the FCC had a regulation called The Fairness Doctrine - a rule that required broadcasters to鈥�
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The President of Middlebury College, Laurie Patton, is disappointed, and for good reason.About 400 students shouted down Charles Murray, the co-author of鈥�
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Recently, I went to a performance in Burlington by Lewis Black, the comedian from The Daily Show known for an onstage delivery filled with agitation and鈥�
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I like to take in the news with a critical eye, and can understand why some people don鈥檛 trust the media. After all, these days the news is less Walter鈥�
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My wife and I were returning home from Florida on Delta Airlines when something happened that pales in comparison with events like the baggage claim鈥�
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I鈥檓 56 years old, and things are more settled than they used to be. Looking back at my life and career now, there were stretches of turmoil when鈥�
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To consider how Donald Trump is singlehandedly changing the media landscape, let鈥檚 take a step back to the 1990s when the Internet was becoming a powerful鈥�
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For months, I鈥檇 been gauging my view of what would happen in the presidential election based on what I read and learned. I looked at polls. I read the New鈥�