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 Sunday, March 21, 2004
started 3/21/2004; 7:02:37 AM - last post 3/21/2004; 8:19:51 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, March 21, 2004 
3/21/2004; 11:02:37 AM (reads: 3367, responses: 2)
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Abort, retry, land 
| | While Dan's plane had trouble getting off the ground (they had to reboot the plane), mine had trouble getting onto it. At an elevation of about thirty feet, over the near end of the runway, the pilot gunned the engines and angled us back up into the sky. Later he came on and said he had a "concern" about something involving the runway. Couldn't have been too creepy; the pilot sitting across the aisle slept through the whole thing. |
| | I actually felt lucky to be flying America West, though, in spite of terrible past experiences with them. The line at the airport in Santa Barbara was short, while the one for United and Delta was the longest I've ever seen there, and did not appear to be moving. And that was at 5:45am. |
| | Sitting in the conference now. Passed a thermometer on the way here that read more than 100° in the shade. |
Even though it's still, technically, Winter
| | Heading to PC Forum in Scottsdale early today (the show starts this afternoon). I just checked the weather. High of 97° today. Low of 69° tonight. The highs dip below 90° on Wednesday, when I leave. |
Death of a chronicle foretold
| | Yep. "Real" news on TV died an agonizing death years ago when networks decided that next-day interviews with stars of network shows were news when they clearly weren't. I read two newspapers and several newsy Web sites a day and never watch TV news any more. I'm a tiny minority, but it works for me. |
| | Being an informed participant in the democratic process should be worth spending some time and brain cycles, not just sitting dumb and dumfounded in front of a boob toob passively absorbing the crap the networks hand out. |
| | Jay Rosen has problems with "strategy news" stories that are neither — yet involve a kind of vanity: |
| | These are the seductions of the form, which gets the journalist to identify, not with the candidate, but with the theatre of strategy itself, where there is an audience of cognoscenti, and the players discuss with that audience the bamboozlement of another, larger audience--the voters--who are outside the theatre, a "them," not an us. |
| | It comes out of the press' desire to seem inside and ahead even if it's not substance they're reporting. |
| | It's also a part of the tiresome sermonizing formula of news coverage. A good sermon, the saw says, follows a standard structure: it tells 'em what you're doing to tell 'em, then tells 'em, then tells 'em what you've told 'em. |
| | News coverage, by comparison, wants to tell you what's going to happen and then tell you it's happening and then tell you it happened -- making news repetitive, predictable, and dull... and not necessarily informative. I remember when Bush announced his space plan we were buried in previews, then reports, then analyses. The story dragged out for two weeks when it should have lasted two days. |
| | Campaigns take that sermonizing structure and add big buckets of bull. |
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Julian Bond - If not TV News then what?
3/21/2004; 5:20:07 PM (reads: 404, responses: 0)
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A couple of gross generalizations
- Americans don't read any more. They get their view of the world from TV.
- TV News no longer contains any news and particularly not World News.
Draw your own conclusions from putting these two factoids together.
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Scott - Re: Monday, March 21, 2004
3/22/2004; 12:19:51 AM (reads: 455, responses: 0)
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Not to be a smart ass, but the Vernal Equinox occurred on March 20, 2004. 90+ degrees is still plenty hot, though. Drink lots of water!
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