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They’d been covering the radicals and the hippies so much that now his viewers couldn’t see past them. The gray areas had ceased to exist. And old Cronkite had two thoughts about this. First, anyone who thinks television can bring the nation together to have a real dialogue and begin to understand one another with empathy and compassion is
... See moreNathan Hill • The Nix
On January 20, 2017, Time magazine seems to inadvertently prove the point when one of its reporters, Zeke Miller, erroneously reports that incoming president Trump has removed a bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office. The incendiary claim is born of a bias that used to be verboten in responsible journalism: Miller later explained
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
As a news source, Fox is about as plausible and useful as an episode of Thundercats. Still, at least by hiring Beck, they’ve genuinely challenged the stuffy consensus notion that people should only really be given their own show on a major news channel if they’re sane.
Charlie Brooker • I Can Make You Hate
A writer's anecdote about a joke for Johnny Carson that failed then succeeded, revealing the unpredictable nature of comedy.
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What we heard is Johnny didn't like doing Carnac because he felt it was like a day off for the writers. Oh, I see. That was it. He would do it twice a year. So I wrote it.
And again, when you're a writer for The Tonight Show, you were expected to crank out 60 jokes a day. And I always wish, why couldn't it be just do 10 good jokes?
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