On The Record
Genre	Current affairs program
Running time	60 minutes
Starring	Greta Van Susteren
Country of origin	United States
Original network/channel	Fox News Channel
Original run	2002 – present
No. of episodes	Unknown

On the Record is an American current affairs television program on the Fox News Channel. It is broadcast live each weekday at 10:00 p.m. ET and replayed at 3:00 a.m. ET. The show, hosted by Greta Van Susteren, primarily covers a number of criminal investigations, with analysis from a panel of lawyers and legal analysts. Image File history File links Ontherecord. ... Current Affairs is a genre of a broadcast journalism format where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have been recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. ... Program or Programme may refer to: Computer program Radio programming Television program(me), Webcast Program (management) 12-step program Program (The Animatrix), a short film in The Animatrix series Event programme British tabloid form of comic book, called prog in short. ... Minutes are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. ... Greta Van Susteren, on FOX News. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Current Affairs is a genre of a broadcast journalism format where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have been recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up live in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Greta Van Susteren, on FOX News. ...

GretaWire

During weekdays, an online blog is updated on a daily basis to keep viewers up to date on the latest information on cases the program is following in addition to giving viewers "inside information on the program they won't get anywhere else." A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. ...

Updated by Van Susteren, the blog also has a number of the e-mails she receives on a daily basis, answering anything from questions about the latest stories to the program itself to other questions and criticisms.

Criticisms

In late 2005, many criticisms of On the Record's coverage of the Natalee Holloway coverage formed. Primairly, coverage of the story had moved from the actual case, to Beth Twitty's endeavors ^[1], the later in the year it became. Yearbook portrait of Natalee Holloway Natalee Ann Holloway (born October 21, 1986) is a U.S. teenager from Mountain Brook, Alabama, an affluent suburb of Birmingham, who disappeared on May 30, 2005 during a post-graduation trip in Aruba. ...

Additionally, the story had brought On the Record its highest ratings to date ^[2], keeping the story on the front burner, though no new groundbreaking information had appeared on a regular basis. By some, the coverage has been labeled "missing white woman syndrome," with the addition of other stories covered in the following months. As of late though, the story has still been continued on the website online (with its own section) ^[3] and the weekday program, though the segments are becoming more sparse and only are covered during times when groundbreaking information is in the headlines. Missing white woman syndrome, also known as missing pretty girl syndrome, is a term coined by some media critics to reference a form of media hype in which excessive news coverage is devoted to a specific missing white woman or girl, while virtually ignoring missing men, non-white women, or...

References

MSNBC (a portmanteau of MSN and NBC) is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States. ...

External links

• GretaWire on FoxNews.com
• On the Record on FoxNews.com
• Greta Van Susteren's bio on FoxNews.com