Media on media: Eden Lane interviews Greg Moody

[Colorado Media Newsroom]

From The Denver Post:



Her Friday night arts series “In Focus” on CPT12-KBDI has covered a slew of theater productions, artists, actors, dancers and writers over the years. This week, Eden Lane devotes a show to a longtime colleague in arts reporting: Greg Moody.

The popular and much missed Moody is her guest Friday at 9:30 p.m. on Channel 12.

Lane asks gentle but crucial questions, encouraging her subjects to speak at length. In this case, she asks the former CBS4 critic at large about his long career (in radio, newspaper and TV), his approach to criticism, the boom in arts festivals and the exponential growth of the Denver Center and his next chapter and ongoing work as a playwright.

Moody notes that he still provides arts reporting for Channel 4 on a freelance basis. And he reminisces about his early days in Denver (at channels 9 and 4), when TV stations sent him all over the state to cover things like the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the music acts at the State Fair in Pueblo.

“I explored the state like you can’t believe,” he says.

But what neither Moody nor Lane tackle is the state of local arts reporting now. There have been some gains but more losses — more arts coverage from Colorado Public Radio and RMPBS, much less from TV. In fact, there’s no regular, fulltime arts reporter at any major local TV affiliate. They didn’t put in a plug for more and better arts criticism on TV, but we can.




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