Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Unfortunately, to me it will always be Pan Am, even if Pan Am is gone. As is TWA. As is Polaroid. As is Lehman Brothers. As no doubt soon will be Chrysler, The New York Times, Ford, Kodak and someday in the not...
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MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS AND EMAILS. THE WHOLE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS ITS GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONCERN AND SUPPORT AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME.
Read moreOne Down… Two to Go
And that’s the way it is…. CBS News apparently is about to outsource part of its newsgathering operation to CNN, or so says The New York Times. This is hardly surprising. For far too long network news operations have...
Read moreThe Bottom of the Barrel
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg4BTPIqbI&hl=en] If there were an Emmy for dumbness, this one would win. While newspapers embrace video and we debate whether the revolution that Leica brought to photojournalism can be translated to small video cameras, there is another revolution going...
Read moreA Man and A Woman
Anouk Aimee Watching Claude Lelouch’s A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) last night, I was taken at the utter simplicity yet power of the film. Made in 1966, and winner of the Academy Award for...
Read moreCourtesty David Martin
Normally, I like to write all my own material, but David Martin does it far better this morning. Take a look: Reading the new Clay Shirky book. A good read; highly recommended… “In a world where publishing is effortless,...
Read more25 Years Later
Just think….. It is hard to believe, but we are now preparing for the 25th anniversary reunion of my class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. People I have not heard from in, oh, 25 years, are beginning...
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