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| Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
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| | i dont know why i dont have them, theyre just lame or something. |
The mud story, cont'd
| | Santa Barbara, I heard this morning (I'm not there) is now Maui. All four roads into the town from Outside are closed, washed out or mudded over. You can only get in and out by plane or boat. |
| | Here are pics by one La Conchita local, courtesy of pointage from another local, an Ojai resident who I'm guessing can't get to work. |
| | Here's the best picture I've seen yet of the slide itself. This is from our local paper (which will scroll behind a costwall soon). One quote: By Monday evening, a remarkable 23.74 inches of rain had fallen since Friday onto San Marcos Pass, one of the areas closed to traffic. Cachuma Lake, which just a month ago was dwindling below comfortable levels, spilled Monday morning. |
Trustbusting
| | The public has its own press now, or the least the makings of a talented one. That is new. It is in some way "pressing" for a larger role in the news; and as we have seen lately it is also able to take one. CBS would be wise to think about innovations in openness, an area where there has been very little thinking, experimentation or change in the news business. During its "trust us, we're the pros" era, journalism was not concerned very much with openness. It was concerned with preventing interference in the news. It was concerned with professional autonomy. |
| | I am shocked that CBS News President Andrew Heyward still has his job. |
| | There were huge dangers for Rather, for CBS News and for the network itself in allowing Rather to become so involved in defense of the story, which muted everyone else "under" Rather, leaving only Andrew Heyward, the boss, who did not act. He was the one who could have protected the brand and his friend, Dan Rather, by speaking truth to (star) power. The responsibility was his alone and he failed in the clutch. |
| | Network TV news still matters. The problem for CBS is that the networks that matter are CNN and Fox. For them, news is a full-time job. For CBS it's a division that produces a half-hour of evening news (far less if you subtract out the ads) and a few programs — in a marketplace where the potential sources of news are rapidly becoming countless. |
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