Diane Rehm show: former CBS correspondent Tom Fenton says that the networks are no longer in the news gathering business. Via Dave.
Daily Archives: March 7, 2005
Wilco Live Concert Online via NPR
NPR’s All Songs Considered webcast a live Wilco concert from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 club. Listen to the concert here.
Buffett Bets on A Weak Dollar
Warren Buffett has 21.4 billion in forward foreign exchange contracts.
UPDATE: Buffett’s recent letter to his shareholders.
John Coltrane’s Giant Steps
Michael Levy takes a fascinating look at John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. A great compliment to Elizabeth Van Ness’s question: Is a Cinema Studies Degree the New MBA?
Still more, Ms. Daley, the U.S.C. Cinema-Television dean, argues that to generalize such skills has become integral to the film school’s mission. More than 60 academic courses at U.S.C. now require students to create term papers and projects that use video, sound and Internet components – and for Ms. Daley, it’s not enough. “If I had my way, our multimedia literacy honors program would be required of every student in the university,” she said.
What’s Missing from News is News
Frank Rich nails it:
What’s missing from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all get-out, as every promo reminds us, “Reporting America’s Story.” That story just happens to be the relentless branding of Brian Williams as America’s anchorman – a guy just too in love with Folks Like Us to waste his time looking closely at, say, anything happening in Washington.
Even NPR. I woke up the other morning at 6 and Morning Edition’s lead story was Martha Stewart (not Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, the dollar’s ongoing meltdown, or any of a number of domestic issues).