This decision to blur a mass killer’s face so that he doesn’t get the attention he seeks might be well-intentioned, but it’s also moronic. It just guarantees that everyone will rush to the Internet to find out what the nutcase looks like.
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Broadcast News
Cock your head to one side, look sad, and you, too, can be a big-time anchor
Many, many moons ago, Yours Truly was a young journalism student. I know, I know; that sucks, but there you have it.
Anyway, we learned in school that there are two kinds of journalists: the print media kind, and the TV kind. The print-media journalists mostly toiled away in low-paid obscurity, spending days or even weeks on important stories that maybe 16 people would read. The TV journalists would read these stories in the newspaper and then use them to craft three-minute segments about whatever issue the story discussed.
That’s how TV journalists got their story ideas: from someone else.
One day in my misbegotten reporter’s youth I found myself seated at a table at some important, government-type meeting, directly across from Dallas’s hot-shot television news anchor, a pompous ass named Chip Moody. While I took copious, laborious notes about the meeting, Moody sat with a smirk on his face, doodling on a scrap of paper. He didn’t take notes; he barely heard what was being discussed.
He knew that all he had to do was show up, and the glamour and money would follow.
They do make lots of money, so maybe, unlike the buffoon played by William Hurt in Broadcast News, TV anchors aren’t so stupid after all.
Nah, most of them are clowns.
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It does seem like nearly all of our institutions – academics, courts, legislatures, media, Hollywood, medicine, big business, and whatever else I’m forgetting – are crumbling. They all seem to be run by corrupt people with too much power.
What’s the other thing they all have in common? The Baby Boomers are in charge.
Pretty sure Chip Moody was a Baby Boomer.
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Something a print journalist would notice and a TV journalist would not:
Not sure why dog owners are so prone to nonstop barking, but jail time seems appropriate.
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The fun part about having so many Democrat candidates for president? Watching most of them crash and burn.
Lord knows what kind of scandals and embarrassments we have to look forward to.
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Say what you will about Bill Maher – and you will say what you will about Bill Maher – but he’s not boring. One week he’s just another whiny little bitch; the next week he’s one of the few liberal talking heads with a scattering of brain cells.
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CBS cameramen continue to do an admirable job tracking the progress of their favorite Survivor contestant, young Lauren O’Connell (above right and below).
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