Year: 2005

CNet does a fair job of covering the crosstalk in the aftermath of the controversial court ruling issued yesterday.

As Brian Nichols was being taken into custody this morning, Geraldo Rivera was speeding to the scene of the arrest. By violating various traffic laws, he helped FOX become the first of the major networks to scoop the story.

Are you a blogger? Just who is a blogger? Dave Pell asks the question.

I’ve got a bag that looks like these. It’s the travel bag. The one that contains everything you’d need to do your job while you’re on the road. You know…all the necessities – power adapters, software CDs, extra batteries, passport, frequent flier cards, Euro coins, British Pounds, a couple of Korean WON, and 5 Ringgits. Cat5 cable, and various phone adapters just in case you’ve got to dial-up (yuck). Oh, and a couple of floppy disks, just in case.

I won’t be showing you mine though.

Two to go. I’ve just been through two of the busiest, most stressful days I can remember in a long time. Yesterday, with the funeral and all, and today with two 120 mile treks in the vehicle, and 4 children stuck in high gear. Sheesh. Tomorrow, another couple of 120 mile treks, then we clean out and remove items from my grandmother’s home. Don’t know what we’re gonna find. It’s always strange when you have to clear out the belongings of someone who isn’t alive anymore. A few years ago, I had a cousin who died suddenly. We had to go to his apartment and clear out his stuff. When people don’t expect to die, they don’t clean up, they don’t get rid of things they don’t want people to see, they don’t secure anything. Like clicking a stopwatch, everything is frozen in time. When you start rummaging through their belongings, you discover a lot of things. It’s a little peek into a life. Some might consider it a treasure hunt. To me, it’s not. It’s an invasion of privacy.

I’m not looking forward to it. 

No blogging today. I’ll be attending my grandmothers funeral and spending time with family. I’ll check in Friday evening.

Rather’s goodbye video.
CBS News transcript.

NBC’s Brian Williams tribute.
ABC’s Peter Jennings tribute.

Courage.

My take? He wasn’t as classy as Brokaw, but…Dan didn’t do a bad job. I expected him to talk more about how he spent years being the consummate reporter, blah blah blah. No, he spent most of his time saluting others, and I think that’s OK. It doesn’t mean I give him a pass for any bias he’s shown in the past. It just means that he went out in a decent way. Now, he should do the right thing and disappear.

Via TVNewser:

“Dan Rather’s departure tonight as the anchor of the ‘CBS Evening News’ provides Viacom Inc. with the opportunity to remake a broadcast that has the lowest ratings in 24 years and garners 13 percent less for advertisements than competitor NBC,” Bloomberg reports. The CBS Evening News has lost 73,000 viewers in the past year. And Tradition Asiel Securities analyst Paul Kim estimates Viacom “reaps $200 million a year from news, about half as much as NBC News.”

h/t TVNewser:

“I want to get onto the next thing, flat out, full out, full throttle, do it as best I can do it. I believe my best work is ahead of me.” — Dan Rather, in an interview with ABC News today.

Heh.

The 129th Carnival of the Vanities is up over at Solomonia.