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“On that day, our nation changed.” Promotions, teases and lead-ins to broadcast programs or segments about today’s sixth anniversary of the 9/11/2001 terror attacks often have had this or a similar phrase. Hosts on shows so far repeat the statement and precede it with, “Everyone knows that. …” No, we don’t. No, it didn’t. I […]
Let us consider “hero,” not this person or that but the word. To consider how this word is being used in the media is to review to whom it is applied. That’s unfair to the person in the headline — “A hero remembered: [City name here] memorializes hometown soldier killed by helicopter crash in Iraq” […]
Art museums are necessary evils. Even as they perform their important functions of archivism, centralization and certification, they rob their collected pieces of vital energy.” — Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2007 DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — It’s time, my fellow Americans, to stand up to the injustice of housing works of art in museums. […]
The first-day coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings was, compared to most similar events, surprisingly restrained. CNN was unbearably repetitive. I couldn’t see more than five minutes at a time, due to impatience, but wasn’t it wonderful that the cable news station of excess kept guesswork and pseudo-psycho-pap about the shooter to a minimum. But […]
Copyright Ben S Pollock 2007 I was looking for The Charlie Rose Show. Honest. It was a little after 11, and I was bored with Dave and Jay. It was pledge week for the state’s PBS conduit, AETN (Arkansas Educational Television Network), though so I realized Rose might be delayed or pre-empted. Most pledge drives […]
Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal had a great profile on McDonald’s chef, Dan Coudreaut. McDonald’s. Chef. Make that “director of culinary innovation.” McDonald’s. So you read along, and this being the Journal, the line of his career development and outlook all has a business or marketing focus, but it’s fascinating all the same. Mickey D’s grows […]